frantathefranta

I've had the same experience with EndeavourOS (more user-friendly Arch). It's running on an old OptiPlex desktop with an added GTX1650 GPU. I've had basically no issues for the last 8 months, with my dual monitor set-up working out of the box. I've used Arch prior to this for about 2 years but I wouldn't say that stopped me from making some mistakes. Nothing that broke the install for me though.

Home Assistant is the most important service that I host myself. With this comes a slew of other services that make HASS as cloud-free as possible (Zigbee2MQTT, ZWaveJS2MQTT etc). After that it's a mix of testing containers and VMs on Proxmox, some of which help me learn new things or procure select media formats. I avoid hosting things that are unnecessary to host just for the sake of hosting, like the popular Vaultwardenor Nextcloud. I also have a personal Plex server that's just for the local network.