I am a basic bitch when it comes to hosting -> Nothing exotic, but I have messed with somewhat exotic things before. It is fun, but time consuming, and as I get older the time becomes more precious than money.

Fedora w/ KDE on Workstations, user platforms - every day browsing, gaming, etc. The installations have lasted since fedora 34, and have had very few hiccups (Framework 13, Dell T5820)

Proxmox as Hypervisor hosts (Basically Debian) - been rock solid stable since PVE5.4, and while not perfect has been pretty easy to work with. I am a ZFS evangelist, and ZFS support is excellent.

Debian 11/12 for most vm guests - again, easy to use, straightforward, seems to “just work”

Centos/fedora server for Podman host - IDK, seems that podman has worked the best for me on Redhats own platforms, but this could very well be just personal experience.

OPNsense for firewall/router - Was a longtime pfsense user, but the way the company approaches their userbase started to leave a bad taste in my mouth.

NIXOS for experimentation - its a trip, and loads of fun, but because it drives the tinkering in me I tend not to use it for daily driving.

As I said, its pretty basic, nothing exotic or crazy. I have about 10 machines in my household (5 user facing, 4 servers, firewall)

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$sudo sgdisk --zap-all /dev/SD{x}

$sudo wipefs -a /dev/SD{x}

The first wipes any existing partitions or data that exist.

The second wipes any data in the table headers if anything is left?

Those have worked for most times I needed it

How do you like Actual? I set up Fireflyiii as well, but once I read that there is no way to share a ledger, so to speak, it turned me off a bit.

My wife has bookkeeping experience, so something that is a bit closer to double entry bookkeeping would be awesome, since it should fit easily into her quickbooks experience.

Currently looking at akaunting, which seems like it may work, if it is truly self hosted