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Linux is quite lightweight. Pick a distro that doesn't run a lot of stuff by default. OpenBSD only runs sshd exposed to the network, AFAIR. Debian probably does the same. But really, the lightness comes from what isn't running. NixOS, fedora, rocky, alpine are all decent alternatives.
Using NixOS for my server. Makes self hosting a breeze because there's built in config options for most services I've tried to setup
Hi, you got dotfiles ? I want to take a look.
Have sent you an example of a nix config file on matrix
Mind if I check it out as well? I'm considering switching to NixOS