Using an old laptop as a 24/7 server with anti-detect browsers on multiple OS?

I have an old laptop that I want to use as a self-hosted server to run SEO tools 24/7. I want to use anti-detect browsers and switch between them etc using automation and I will use my old android phone with a sim card and airplane mode switching to rotate 4g IP's. I was thinking of using Windows 11 Home VM's, but there must be a better way than having 10 installations of Windows on the server (each with 25-50 anti-detect browser profiles on them). Also wont anti-detect browsers using VM's have a footprint that it is a VM?

Which OS and VM software should I use to minimize the space taken by multiple Windows 11 installs and how should I set it all up?

Running 10 instances of Windows 11 is going to eat up a ton of resources for no real gain. If you really need Windows, go with Windows Server (lighter than 11) and use snapshots to manage instances efficiently. Honestly, a better setup would be Proxmox with lightweight Linux containers (LXC) for task automation and a single Windows VM for tools that require it.

NeedMyLink said:

Running 10 instances of Windows 11

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Only 1 instance of Windows 11 will be running at any time.

VertexAgency said:

Proxmox on a laptop You forget that he said old laptop. Most likely is processor will not even support type1 hypervisor. Even if it did, probably he can not run more than 2 vms. Proxmox is supposed to be used on server hardware not commercial grade devices such as laptops.

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The laptop is from about 2018-2019, and is Intel Core i5 8th Gen. and 16GB RAM.

VertexAgency said:

any distro as a host os + kvm for virtualization

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If I install Linux Mint and a kvm can I install Windows 11 and run it as if I am using a normal Windows 11 laptop?

The reason I want multiple Windows 11 installs if that I want sites to think it is an unique device with an unique fingerprint each time. Other-wise I could just use one Windows 11 install with anti-detect browsers. I want to use the 5 free profiles from the anti-detect browser, multiple times. 10 VM's with 5 anti-detect profiles = 50 different users/devices from Facebook or Google's perspective?

VertexAgency said:

lso with proxmox you only have web-based interface for management. So you have to connect from another PC via web on localhost.

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I want to connect to the laptop remotely, so I don't actually want to use the laptop's screen for this. I will leave it running in the corner of my home office and just get it to run AI tools and SEO programs etc.

VertexAgency said:

laptop is not optimized to be cost effective for running 24/7

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Well, I probably won't run it 24/7 but many people use old laptops as NAS or self-hosted home servers with no problems.

VertexAgency said:

Also if your antidetect browser is Adspower you should know it is natively supported on any debian based distro. You simply install the deb package.
This will make resource consumption even smaller. Because you can create multiple linux VMs instead of windows.

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Can an anti-detect browser fake the OS to the social media company? I think having 100 facebook accounts using Linux would be a footprint of fake accounts as 90%+ of FB users are on Windows.