such whiney babies? WHo forking cares?

I'm moving to TrueNAS. I run it on an AMD with 40 GB memory. It doesnt run containers out of the box but it has a similar feature called "jails". It runs VMs. I currrently run two, a Matrix Synapse server (https://420club.ca) and a MSSQL server, both on Ubuntu server OS. The base TrueNAS OS is FreeBSD. I run jails for a Mosquitto MQTT server and a Node Red server. A Zoneminder jail plugin is available but I am still using QVRPro for the time being. There are quite a few "community" jail plugins available. For hardware, the motherboard has a Marvel 2.5 GB NIC and I put in an ASUS 10BGE nic. Both work like a charm although I had to configure the Marvel driver to load at boot. This has been solid as a rock. The main issue may be the user interface, it's not bad but the flow can get annoying sometimes. It helps to know what you are doing.

I've used a number of QNAPs over the years without issue. They're fine when you know what you are doing. For apple types, try Drobo or Synology, those may be more to your taste. Personally, I have moved on to TrueNAS.