Having not used proxmox, I’m surprised that this is a problem that can even happen at all
Is there no official tool to help people with this? I usually do my self-hosting through my NAS and it has an official program to detect NAS from that brand on the LAN
Docker is absolutely worth learning, all the cool kids know that self-hosted things gotta have docker versions
It’s also not too hard to learn, I still don’t really get Linux at all but a docker-compose file is basically just instructions to an installer in plaintext form