Good day people!

(This paragraph is fluff, feel free to skip) First I’d like to thanks everyone who has answered my questions thus far. A of now I’m daily driving CachyOS on my “laptop” and Bazzite on my gaming PC. I’ve settled on Hyprland after running with sway for a few days and have been forcing myself to solve problems and do file management using the CLI exclusively (excluding firefox for duckduckgoosing help). I’ve gotten semi-comfortable manipulating files, but haven’t had to do anything too skill intensive yet.

On to the question! I am currently looking to set up a home server. My use case is for storing media, specifically videos (for watching) and game Roms (for playing older games on emulator). With this use case in mind, what’s a good resource to learn how to get started? For those who have home servers set up with similar purposes, how did you arrive at your current set-up? What considerations should i take before, during, and after set-up?

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Thank in advance! Hope to hear from you all soon!

  • ScientifficDoggo@lemmy.zipOP
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    6 days ago

    Thank you for your insight! I’ve been playing with the idea of getting a retired tower from my workplace to mess around with so it’s nice knowing that’s a valid path. Once I’ve secured some hardware and done some research on set-up I’ll be sure to report back (probably with more questions)!

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      5 days ago

      No problem! Yeah, as long as you have the space, I think this would be a good way to repurpose an old junker PC. I imagine a quick search of something along the lines of “how to configure a samba server” should bring up some decent tutorials.