Ah fair play! Although I think you have to run the bitcoin node to run the ln node. Anyway, you will be best off having a l1 wallet backed by your own node when coming on and off l2!
Discussion
I did not know that I should run parallel l1 and l2. I do understand that I can run LN for routing transacrion only.
Yes you will be able to run a routing node. Lightning interacts with the base layer, its just an app on top of bitcoin, so it's kind of one and the same.
I will figure it out once I have the righr hardware. I will check the link you've sent me and heed on your tips, I appreciate your information otherwise I will regret my move later.
But no fear, I think the umbrel package will do all the heavy lifting for you once you've got it started up.
I hope it will run smoothly once I have it running. And how about your experience now with your nodes? Bitcoin and LN?
No I only run a bitcoin node, I would like to run a ln node at some point as a project, but I don't really use ln much apart from on here, so the costs of keeping channels loaded and balanced don't look worth it in my use case at present. When there are more merchants and services who accept ln then I will, as at that point transacting on ln rather than bitcoin l1 makes complete sense.
But I love running my own bitcoin node. It's been a great learning project and I'm happy that I can use bitcoin a bit more privately, and being able to verify, and not trust!