On 2020-03-25 Alberto Abrao wrote:
Moved to Debian on Jan/2020 soon after I moved to Winnipeg, and it's running great. That's when I decided to try Debian on everything - including workstations. But something about Debian irks me. Maybe the package management system? I don't know for sure.
Join the club! Debian is a weird beast. Things are all in the wrong places, and apt is bizarre. (But that's because I'm a RH guy since 1999, so RH stuff is all second nature. "YMMV".)
So today I was moving my laptop back to Fedora and I realized... why not run that on a server just for fun? Going by what you are telling me, well, I have no issues with troubleshooting the odd thing at random times, I find it fun to be honest. So I might as well run it. Keeps me sharp.
Yes, from all you said Fedora will do just fine for your internal server. If it fields no external requests (isn't your router, not an MTA, web server, etc; and no net client s/w like web browser, MUA) then you even mitigate one of the cons -- the must-update-every-year thing -- because if hackers can't easily reach the box you don't have to be as strict about rapid upgrades... you can probably let it slip an extra release version.
Once again, thanks for your input!
No problem. I'm sure others will be able to provide opinions as well.