Quickly wondering what people recommend as OS for a rpi model 4b, outside of the RaspPiOS ofc. I want to use the RPI for all networking related stuff (dont worry its not using an sd-card). So PiHole, and I’ll also want to use it as my exit-node out of my Tailnet. I will also run ProtonVPN on it so that all my devices indirectly use a vpn, as long as they’re connected over Tailscale. That’s at least what I had in mind so far, please do criticise the idea if there are better alternatives or solutions that you would recommend. I have been looking at running either Alpine or MicroOS. Or should I just go for a server based OS?

Appreciate any suggestions!

  • @hottari@lemmy.ml
    5•2 years ago

    Go with MicroOS. SUSE’s products are criminally underrated for how well designed they are. Plus at some point you are bound to face a brick wall when trying to use software that is not musl compatible on alpine.

  • SunRed
    4•2 years ago

    I am running alarm / Arch Linux ARM aarch64 on mine for years already. Just make sure to use the linux-rpi kernel and use rpi4-eeprom for bootloader updates as these are not installed by default.

  • @flashgnash@lemm.ee
    4•2 years ago

    NixOS runs on a pi quite well and it’s pretty good for setting up self hosted services

    Storage space might be an issue on smaller SDs but I haven’t run into that yet on mine

    • LunchOP
      2•2 years ago

      Yeah I really do want to get into NixOS, just not had the time to learn something so different quitr yet. Possibly after Christmas. Would really like to be running the same OS on all of my devices fro sure.

  • Sunoc
    3•2 years ago

    I’m currently running Alpine on my RPi4 as a host for some Dockers, including pi-hole and it works great! The setup is surprisingly painless and you’ll end up with some insanely fast boot time. Highly recommended !

    • LunchOP
      1•2 years ago

      Thanks but not yet, eventually yes, just to see how it is and learn, but for now still learning the basics.