I've seen a lot of different ways of setting up development environments for Drupal, but am curious about which one is most popular, and what is the preferred method for production?

I only ask because I have a few machines in my homelab running FreeBSD, Slackware and Ubuntu, and would like to set off on the right foot knowing what best practices are.

It's only for a hobby website. I'm comfortable with git, docker and composer but am not a developer (my php knowledge is next nothing).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.