i decided that casa os would be the base for my ubuntu server virtual machine. i watched a lot of hardware haven videos, and saw that casa os is a very simple and intuitive way to install docker containers. i started off installing a whole bunch of services; adguard home, nextcloud, cloudflared, nginx proxy manager, vaultwarden, crafty controller, and many more.

the setup was very easy, and if you want more access to apps, i recommend installing the bigbear casa os apps directory as they have a whole range of apps.