Migrated from Truenas to Debian yesterday and ....

So I started on Truenas because I was a total beginner and I wanted just a dedicated NAS and as I got more into it I found out quickly that I can use Apps to improve my homelab experience, now that I built up a collection of apps I started running into constraints and so I looked at switching before I got massively deep into it and I have to say it was the best decision I have made so far, I did have to get a lot of help and troubleshooting from an AI but losing the GUI was well worth it.

I still have some GUI stuff, Cockpit, Dockge but nothing like Truenas GUI, but I have a functional machine without any constraints.

For anyone looking to get into Homelabbing I would defiantly get a Linux distro like Debian or Ubuntu, you will have a much easier time once with Apps, If all you care about is a NAS Truenas is fine and has a much better ZFS system, but I don't think they are heading in a good direction going forward.