What distro are you using? JF recommends Ubuntu.
FWIW, I found TechHut’s Jellyfin YouTube tutorials super easy to follow when I was just starting out. He also has a video on FStab which you might eventually find handy. I haven’t watched this stuff in long time though so it might be outdated. https://www.youtube.com/c/TechHutHD
i literally have to spell everything out
Yes. You do. That’s just the way it goes.
It doesn’t matter if you’re doing OSS or looking for venture capital, you need to sell your project/product to users. In an OSS project, prospective users need to understand why they should invest their time. You always need an elevator pitch or one liner. In github, the elevator pitch is the “About” section on the right hand side of the page (on desktop).
If you want to see what a good sales job looks like for Open Source, check out hoarder. It’s one of the best I’ve seen and certainly one of the main reasons it has received over 13 thousand stars in about one year.
Most of us started with the TRaSH Guides.
Also it’s not Linux or Windows; it’s Docker (which works on both Linux and Windows).
Also check out YouTube. There are a lot of great tutorials on there.
Why even take the risk? Just talk about something else.
I’d start with proxmox.