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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/AirbourneAquarium on 2025-05-26 16:20:14+00:00.

Hey all, budding homelabber here. I'm planning out my system & was dead set on Proxmox as a hypervisor so I could keep the amount of physical devices down to one. What I came to realize, though, is that even with the lighter apps in LXCs, the rest of the system would just end up being Debian VMs running docker.

That being the case, I'm wondering if it'd make more sense to use Debian on bare metal with Cockpit. The virtualization aspect seems redundant on second thought. I know there isn't a right or wrong answer here, but I'm curious what your take is. Thanks!