No never have, always wanted to. Sounded painful - channel costs and balancing and finding channel partners. Sounded too hands-on for my life.

I have an article in Stackchain magazine that walks you through how to set up a CLN node using Debian, how to set up tor, creating a script using inotify to watch the emergency.recover file and copy it to a mounted usb everytime a channel opens or closes. Setting up Bitcoin bitcoind and lightningd a...

Just don't run LND, my 0.02. if you're a beginner use AlbyHub good training wheels. Pay for it in the cloud so you can get support and learn. its a learning curve and you will lose funds, so start with that. Good luck.