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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Najiell on 2026-05-09 06:25:25+00:00.

I set up my first "homelab" if you can call it that on an old desktop I've had collecting dust over the past week.

It has a ryzen 5 1600 and an RX 560, 16GB ram, 1tb sata ssd and 2 4tb hdds. I use ubuntu 24.04 LTS (desktop version for now) as the 2026 version just wouldn't play nice with my hardware. It always crashed on startup

I used docker to contain my services and currently it runs a minecraft server, pihole and the hdds are network storage for my other machines.

I watched tutorials, read documentation and searched forums for some problems I had and asked an AI for very specific things I just couldn't make any progress with. I am a total noob at anything terminal related and before setting up this homelab I felt like a hacker for being able to ping a website in cmd on windows.

Now I've learnt a lot about ubuntu and about setting up everything and I am afraid I'll just forget everything I learned and when something breaks, I won't know how to fix it. I am also afraid of tinkering too much with it now that I've got it running. What do you do to combat this? Any resources for easy projects for a beginner like me?

Thanks :)

You will get better at solving problems if you do it over and over. It's a valuable skill.
If you want to learn better you can try taking notes, writing tutorials etc.