I want to fiddle around with a webserver and IRC server and SSH

>>57713885
Debian debootstrap

>>57713902
>debootstrap is a tool which will install a Debian base system into a subdirectory of another, already installed system
Maybe something a bit more noob friendly? I use Windows with Virtualbox, not linux already

>>57713953
Debian netinst but it will end up to be bigger

>>57713986
k thanks will try

>>57713885
Alpine

>>57713885

Image is trying way too hard

>>57713885
Is doggos the new lolcats lmfao

>>57713885
I run Ubuntu Server in VM. Four instances along with one Win Server running on one laptop. It's user friendly and doesn't need much resources (unless you want a DE but I don't see why you would). Alternatively you could try Arch, it also has a lot of documentation and some things are more "standard" than on Ubuntu. Or CentOS if it's supposed to be a real server and not just an unstable plaything. Documentation for Red Hat is great as well.

In the end, you never need a lot of resources when running Linux servers, no matter the distro. Read up and pick something that seems right for you.