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A home lab setup is all the rage these days.
Using Linux as your lab OS makes perfect sense.
Four distributions stand out as best for this purpose.
I've had several incarnations of the self-hosted home lab for decades. At one point, I had a small server farm of various machines that were either too old to serve as desktops or that people simply no longer wanted. I'd grab those machines, install Linux on them, and use them for various server purposes.
Here are two questions you should ask yourself:
Do you want to use actual PCs for your servers, or would you prefer virtual machines?
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