I use Debian as my daily driver, but I’m still a newbie. I would like to selfhost a few apps, initially on a VPS, but I will probably move to a local PC once I diagnose what is broken with my old computer.
The guides at https://selfhosting.sh/ always recommend Ubuntu Server LTS for newbies, but Ubuntu seems to have bad PR and I already run Debian on my home PC. On one hand, I am a newbie and I guess Ubuntu might be easier to set up and maintain. Though, I don’t HOW exactly? On the other hand, if I have Debian on my home PC and on my server, they are the same system, so I’d be learning the same system at two places and with two usage scenarios. But it might be easier to make mistakes on Debian…?
What is your opinion/recommendation?
It’s just something I got comfortable with long time back, and since I can drive that bus, and it does what I need it to do, I just stuck with it. I’ve never run a full blown Debian OS, so I really can’t compare the two except to say that it’s Linux.
Ubuntu is literally just Debian with Canonical’s bullshit on top.
Oh, I get it’s Debian under the hood. Like I mentioned, I just got comfortable with it and so I’ve seen no reason to switch. The OP’s situation is different tho. He started out with Debian, so it would make sense to continue with Debian.