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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Riekk on 2025-03-18 10:35:17+00:00.
So I used to use a service on my Nvidia Shield, which was recently dropped for support. That was the nudge I needed to finally buy a SFF PC and explore the intriguing world of self hosting. My initial plan was small - just get up and running with what I lost on my Shield, then eventually expand to Plex/Arrs/game servers.
Advice here said to start with proxmox and use a linux distro VM to host my services as docker containers. Sweet, sounds fun.
The Proxmox part has gone ok. I love the fact it natively allows me to operate the PC headless and the flexibility to pivot and bail on a plan. I setup an Ubuntu VM no problem. Even managed to get an LXC running with Cockpit and 45 Drives to act as a NAS. Mounted the samba share in linux - AWESOME.
My problem is with Linux/Docker. I spent all weekend trying to get a simple container running but just hit error after error along the way. "path does not exist" then "file already exists" errors keeping the container from starting. Also, how do I get it to start on boot in the event of a power outage??
I finally caved last night and installed a Windows VM. Downloaded the Windows version of my service and it just works. I'm not giving up entirely - I want to learn and understand this stuff. But I need a break and will be running with Windows for a bit while I reset. Thank you Proxmox for allowing that flexibility without losing all my work to this point in Ubuntu (though I might scrap it anyway and move to Mint).