Yeah, same here. Played with tailscale, headscale and some other wireguard mesh tools. But I prefer the plain and simple wireguard setup. My network is not that big that I need yet an other tool for managing it.
I have been on this path (10+ years in)windows serverFreeNAS > TrueNASProxmoxBare metal Debian with all Docker containersI learned the most with Proxmox (and ZFS), everything in LXCs.But I enjoy the pure Debian install with Docker containers the most!Ps: do not, I repeat, do not install a desktop OS. Pps: stay away from Ubuntu ;)
Great choice! Am a happy Jelly user with a useless lifetime plexpass ;-)