My home labbing journey started a couple of years ago with my introduction to TrueNAS, a simple installation on my rather meek old PC, packing a Ryzen 7 3700X, an Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti, and 24GB of RAM.

One of the most important decisions I had to make when building a home NAS was choosing the operating system. I ended up trying pretty much every major option out there, but the one I keep coming back ...