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Trying to make my first server, stuck on OS choices
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Sounds like you're after a file/media server primarily? If so, you should check out TrueNAS. It's based on FreeBSD, which has lower resource usage and better networking performance compared to Linux, also, it has native support for ZFS, which is one of the best filesystems you can use for file storage.
although I wouldn't run TrueNAS in 2 GB of RAM
I generally spin up Debian on servers and VPS
Raw requirements scale with storage size, 2GB for a small SSD is plenty
TrueNAS Docs would disagree with you
Link? I don't think I had a problem unless fucking around with deduping or too many services