If you use a Pi you need to try Dietpi

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I am sure a lot of us use one or more raspberry Pis. I have 3 in main use and have a number of others doing various duties across Pihole, Home Assistant, MQTT broker etc all which run headless and on lightweight raspberry pi official images. https://dietpi.com

I have only just come across Dietpi and cant find any reference to it on the forum so thought I would share.

It's a very optimised Debian based OS that can run on a Pi, but will run on a lot of other hardware too. But being lightweight, it's also well setup. It has a simple "App Store" for the most useful apps you want to run, ie pihole, HASS, MQTT, node red and a lot lot more. Install is all very simple. https://dietpi.com/dietpi-software.html

Mounting USB or network drives is also all over simple menu structures with simple apps like dietpi-backup, diet pi-sync etc. In fact setting up a backup to a NAS folder (once you work out how to create a NFS shared folder) is crazy easy, so no more panicking about SD cards dying.

It got me to set up 2 of my old rPi 2s again properly for pihole, mqtt and HASS and was so simple. and enjoyable.

I have also taken a further step and rather than running 2 piholes and listing both as DNS options, I have actually set up Keepalived so now have high availability DNS, ie if I pull the plug / update my live pihole system it immediately flips the DNS server IP to the backup pi to keep serving up the web to my clients, aka family members. Genius. But that is probably a topic for another post.

Definitely suggest you have a look.