There is no wrong answer but the right answer is Proxmox.

Keep going; I can see you’re well on your way to getting it installed.

I’m using Cunningham’s Law, dammit. You were supposed to tell me what you use.

I was more interested in the… images… you might create. I saw the X in the card’s model number and like Elon thought, “how can I insert a sex joke here?”

Nah, eggs don’t simmer down until they crack. I’m thinking a name like Sun-il would be cute. Might dictate North Korea later.

How’s the ollama?

Oh I meant “no newer than”

32 year old software.

Runs on 3.2 year old hardware.

That’s so Debian

You could try installing cifs-utils

When you’re trying out distros, I usually say to just go for it. Install the one that grabs your attention. Save everything to a NAS or cloud because the distro is going to break and you’re going to want to try another one. However, Ubuntu is actually the wrong one to start with for this trajectory because it’s the least likely to break.