Yeah, I agree… I want (and have) a NAS… and a separate Server.
The NAS is a NAS, not a TrueNas running my firewall, making coffee and keeping the house warm.
I also agree with OMV for someone starting out. I stuck with it until it got a little too containerised for my own liking and ended up building my NAS out of standard Arch because I now knew what features I wanted.
And my Proxmox is on a passively cooled small, silent, box in my home office. It will be upgraded to Incus on plain Arch one day because, again, I now know what features I want / don’t want.
For OP, try things, break things, try other things… just make sure you have backups 😉
Yeah, this.
It’s annoying as hell waiting 6 weeks for someone to come online with that last 3%.
Anything I find like that I seed as long as I can