Homelab really took off for me when Raspberry pi became available. I was able to play with a 3B board which came with 1 gig ram and 1 CPU. It was a great low power system. I have to admit I was a little lost when I tried using the raspian default OS. It was more “linux” that I was making the most basic things seem like a burden. One day I heard about a super slim OS that had a menu of installable packages. This was perfect. It is a Debian branch which means I can follow along with most online tutorials and use the same commands.
I think my favourite features are
- the drive manager that has a little setup wizard to aid in enlarging the boot disk, adding more storage or mounting a gifs or nfs storage. It adds the correct information to ftab file which was always something I had to google.
- The Os config menu. making it super easy to set time zone, computer name, Static network IP and Custom DNS.
- software library, especially for docker, docker-compose, Portainer. I used to install software directly onto the raspberry pi using the software menu but the lack of containerization bit me once too often. Now I almost solely use docker.
As I have moved to Proxmox, I have create a vm template of a dietpi OS via a cools script I found here: https://github.com/dazeb/proxmox-dietpi-installer
I even tried making my own diet-LXC container from here: https://dietpi.com/blog/?p=2642 . It worked but it seems to me if you are going the way of LXC you might as well stick to purpose built containers from: https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts
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