I have been wanting to self-host recently I have an old laptop it’s a Toshiba satellite m100-221 sitting around it only has 4gb of ram, but I don’t know what is a good starting point for an OS for my home lab I discovered yunohost but heard mixed opinions about it when searching I would like lemmy’s opinion on a good OS for a beginner wanting to start a home lab I would prefer a simple solution like yunohost but would like it to be configurable it’s fine if it needs a bit of tinkering.
Install Debian as a server with no GUI, install docker on it and start playing around.
You can use Komodo or Portainer if you want a webUI to manage containers easily.
If you put any important data on it, set up backups first, follow the 3-2-1 rule by having at least 2 backups in place.
The problem with stuff like yunohost is when it breaks you have no idea how to fix it, because it hides everything in the background.