Hey everyone, I’m planning on setting up my first home server this year. Going to use an old Dell Optiplex with a couple 4tb SSD’s.

I only need two services running. Jellyfin and immich. I’ve tested this out in a debian netinstall VM and it works.

Just looking for helpful hints or advice etc. I’m a long time Linux and BSD user and I’m tempted to try it out using Alpine Linux or even NetBSD (my daily driver os) but I thought I’d be sensible and go with Debian for… Stability?

Anyway, immich is run in a container whereas jellyfin has a binary install. Apparently you can run jellyfin in a container also, not sure I really need to tho?

Thank you for any hints or advice.

  • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Going container-only on a Debian base is a very stable environment without filling up your system with leftovers from experimenting with new services.

    And yes, Jellyfin runs fine in a container.

    • pfrOPEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      I prefer podman over docker. It works, but I wonder if I’m missing out an anything not using docker? I’m still new to containers