Whether you opt for bare metal servers or virtual machines, you'll need a rock-solid distro. These are my four go-to favorites. I’ve had several incarnations of the self-hosted home lab for decades.

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Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

Before moving to Linux, I mostly just used VirtualBox on Windows to run virtual machines. It's available on Linux too, so I kept using it until I found out QEMU/KVM gives you much better performance.