My three essential selfhosted services are :

• an XMPP server
• a CalDAV server
• a bookmark manager (Linkding)

Never tried Mint. If you try it, tell me how good or bad you think it is ! 😊

Don’t know which one to recommend but I would never recommend Ubuntu. It is full of bugs to me. I used it for years without issues but now it is impossible for me. Installed it on my girlfriend’s laptop recently and she has the same bugs I had years ago when I dropped it : network disconnects randomly and she has to reboot, bluetooth won’t reconnect sometimes… I can help but it is definitely not working out of the box for users who are not into tech.

I am a dev but I always find it hard to get into the code of opensource projects so I am never able to contribute. I hope I can understand how to figure this one day.

sudo apt remove python3

Thinking I would install a more recent version. 😂