Comment by INTPenis
12 hours ago
One alternative for those who don't want any of the major NAS vendors, just use RHEL10. It's free up to 16 licenses, it's ultra stable, cockpit is a very mature gui for a lot of maintenance tasks.
It's a set and forget OS that will run for years without requiring your attention. But these days it has decent container support for hosting services on.
Or rocky, which is a 1:1 clone of RHEL that doesn't require licenses. https://rockylinux.org/
The problem with RHEL is that the free version exists at the sufferance of IBM, a company not well known for being motivated by keeping tech enthusiasts happy. I would use Debian, personally. Not as long of a support cycle as RHEL, but still quite stable and no possibility of corporate rug-pulls.