This. Even if you were going to run a bare metal server it’s almost always nicer to install Proxmox and just have a single VM

This reminds me of a question I saw a couple years ago. It was basically why would you stick with bare metal over running Proxmox with a single VM.

It kinda stuck with me and since then I’ve reimaged some of my bare metal servers with exactly that. It just makes backup and restore/snapshots so much easier. It’s also really convenient to have a web interface to manage the computer

Probably doesn’t work for everyone but it works for me