Wlcome to the age when the only correct infra is the one you self-host.

Reminder, @chaoticnumber, revisit this comment in a year.

Hey, I wanna be right, you know? :D

I give them a year before they piss off the dev community.

I would of went Alpine, but debian is a solid choice as well.

To add to the arch management, after a while you learn the golden rule - set it and don’t fiddle with it too much. Nowadays there is very little maintenance to it. I run an update followed by shutdown. Once every 2-3 months there is some issue, that takes a forum search to fix and once a year it breaks to the level where I need about half an hour to an hour to fix it.

Its all fun and games until the power bill arrives. Performance per watt is important, please look at that first. Don’t be me.