For me who uses it as a NAS/VM platform, it’s basically Debian with some virtualization relevant packages and an opt in kernel that are more reasonably up to da

For me who uses it as a NAS/VM platform, it’s basically Debian with some virtualization relevant packages and an opt in kernel that are more reasonably up to date, with solid ZFS support out of the box so I don't care about the "update kernel, reboot, oops version mismatch I need to revert" nonsense. While things like TrueNAS exist with ZFS support, in the past iX systems has made some overeager patches to ZFS, to bring in new features that weren't appropriate to include yet IMO. I hate to dig up old news, but that's why I've avoided them so far. Basically I've got Proxmox "figured out", which lets me fuck around with the things I want, rather than the things I don’t want. This reduces my very subjective mental overhead. All the high availability stuff is wasted on me though, and I just disable the related services. Note to new users experimenting with proxmox The most common "gotcha" with proxmox, is that it does NOT automatically adjust network stuff after install. If you switch out a network card or change what physical port it's connected with, you will lose network access, and need to manually edit `/etc/network/interfaces` to make sure your using a correct port ID and/or assigned IP are valid. iface vmbr0 inet static ... bridge-ports <The port ID, like "enp130s0f0"> ...