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Leanest distro for just a wireguard server?
SocksAreComfortable
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Picked up a handful of VPS deals on Black Friday, figured I could try them out for different uses (instead of just idling them all as seems to be tradition around here xD). I'd like to use one of my Racknerd VPS solely for a wireguard setup -- what distro would be recommended for that? They have Alma, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Rocky, and Ubuntu. I've only spent any significant time with Ubuntu and Mint before, but that was with desktop use, not command line, so really starting from scratch here and would love some suggestions! Thanks in advance.
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Debian thx
I guess with Debian or Ubuntu, you are safe.
The script from the web that @Ympker provided is awesome. I used it.
+1 Debian
i'm using wg easy for a lot of my "exit" boxes
https://github.com/WeeJeWel/wg-easy
Mentally strong people setup WireGuard entirely manually.
Debian for the win.
Alright that's 4/4 Debian suggestions, guess I know what I'm doing tonight! Will definitely try the script out, too. I may try a manual setup on another one of the VPS I ended up with though, never hurts to learn!
Debian is always the winner.
If you need some help let us know!
Alpine
Debian is your choice.
Debian
Debian + Nyr’s script = Wireguard setup under one minute.
Went with Debian 11, used the script. Got my phone and laptop setup as clients in just a couple minutes, was super easy!
I spent more time downloading Wireguard client on my phone than setting up Wireguard on my VPS 😉
Ikr
Big thanks to @Nyr
I use angristan's script https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install
Debian or Ubuntu. Works fine on 128MB VPS
cool. Nyr's scirpt works on 128MB VPS too
What I would like to see is such a script for Alpine distro. idk if that is even possible.
Windows 3.11 😂
On serious note Debian is the best OS for it.