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.
So, it might not sound like much, but 4gb of ram is plenty enough to do quite a bit with self hosting.
If you want to self host, and use it as an opportunity to learn, I recommend you install Debian, and get your hands dirty. If just want to self host without much of a headache, yunohost seems cool, but I’ve never used it, so I can’t recommend it.