TrueNAS will remove VMs the next release. It still supports containers directly.

Edit: apparently I misremembered that and its untrue.

Both. Also some concepts may exist in one language and not the other.

It’s not feasible. A project can have 10s or 100s of thousand lines of code and it takes months to really understand what’s going on. Sometimes you need domain specific knowledge.

I read through those installers that do a curl gitbub... | bash. Otherwise I do what amounts to a “vibe check”. How many forks and stars does it have? How many contributors? What is the release cycle like?