I haven’t found any good information on which distro to use for the NAS I am building. Sure, there are a few out there. But as far as I can tell, none are immutable and that seems to be the new thing for long term durability.
Edit: One requirement is it will run a media server with hardware transcoding. I’m not quite sure if I can containerize jellyfin and still easily hardware transcode without a more expensive processor that supports hyper-v.
Containerization is not virtualization, so why would it have any bearing on hardware transcoding?
I found this guide for setting up GPU access for Unprivileged LXC containers when I googled around:
Giving a LXC guest GPU access allows you to use a GPU in a guest while it is still available for use in the host machine.
https://bookstack.swigg.net/books/linux/page/lxc-gpu-access
Talked about here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/15zbjyl/proxmox_igpu_passthrough_to_multiple_lxc_plex/jxgn7pb/
Several comments specifically talked about VMs for the various apps. And frankly I’m not super familiar with the limitations of containerizing apps either. That’s part of why I was looking for an immutable os + flatpacks / snaps - it’s much more similar to a normal linux system just organized in a way to not break shit.
Use containers (Docker or LXC) instead of VMs.