u/Schroinx

How good is Byhyve compared with Proxmox? And jails w docker/containers? Are there webmin?

Is KDE Plasma due to the lack of login not continued?

I have a media server where I would like to have one common sttorage pool, ideally something like mergerFS. It would then be copied to another so there is a mirror on a backup server. The file system should ideally be ZFS, with some JBOD functionality. Each server would have a full copy of the data & the HDs would be same size. The main server would then propagate all changes to its storage pool the mirror server & its HDs, say each day.

EDIT: I forgot fan control and low power use, as it resides in a condo.
EDIT 2: LLMs have revealed what are likely intel services backdoors to Linux systems. How is this for BSD?
EDIT 3: I plan on getting a Asrock B650D4U and AM5 cpu for the server.

I am one of the W11 refugees and also digital sovereignty, and I am looking at changing that to a different OS. I am superuser on windows, & dos before that. 😄 So I am not scared of a shell once in a while. However for my home media/file server, I had decided on openSUSE w plasma, so I could also remote in a use it for work the (older macos) laptop is too small for. I use Windows App. I don't need the stability of Debian, as I can update the box once in a while and reboot it. Normal maintenence. So openSUSE rolling release TW was initial idea, but after seeing a lot of BSD vids, I have seen a BSD box can the same, but as one said, in Linux you have to relearn when they change things, while in BSD you also most do as you are used to, so little new learning and native ZFS for the files, and now also Plasma, so v15 is what I need, and it seems I can use jails/containers & byvye, if needed. The media server soft Emby I have is ported to BSD. Hopefully it can be brought to idle as low as Linux.
What I am in doubt of, is that there is not rolling release? I would like to install it, and the be able to run it for years without reinstalls of it all? Can one update from one release to the next or what do you suggest?
EDIT: I am in the planning/research fase, so I can chose either way, as the software and functions seems to be available on both Linux and BSD.
EDIT2: Thx for the quick responses. I'll try w BSD first, as it seems it can be upgraded also.