And don’t listen to the disgruntled old-timers that say you’ll stop exploring in your free time, they’re just jealous and/or have kids with very little free time left.

Fuck that. I am in my 40’s and still messing around with my lab and stuff in my free time…and at work. The want to learn never stops if you like what you are doing.

Not many I know of use it but they at least know what it is. However saying yes I understand how a type 1 hypervisor works is good enough.

I landed a job also just off my homelab. Well sitting in the interview I setup an account for the guy, got him accessed in and let him look at everything I did and could do. You would be amazed how much better it is to be able to show you can do a job then just try to tell someone you can.

Also it’s a huge thing to show a willingness and gift for self learning, a lot of people do not have that. When you find someone like that even if the skills are raw you know that person can be turned into something great.

I use proxmox and have ubuntu server doing both my portainer load out and anything else I need. So yeah people use it.