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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/Arouthor on 2026-03-28 16:44:18+00:00.

Recently I got my hands on a Lenovo Tiny ThinkCentre with some pretty decent hardware inside. I’ve been operating a NAS for about 2 years now that’s running TrueNAS Scale. Its been very convenient for file storage and hosting containers. Now that I have this Tiny I’m wondering if I should transfer the containers to it as a standalone machine running a lightweight version of Linux. This is mainly driven because a lot of my containers cant get updates. Many apps get updated but because Scales catalog doesn’t pull these new updates I cannot push the update to the containers. Meaning, there are a number of containers running apps that are out of date and looking for updates that cannot be updated. I saved many of the app configuration files in a dataset that I created but there are a few that I set up right when I was getting the NAS up and running that used the iX default that I hear is hard to access when transferring app configurations like this.

I’m looking to pick the brains of people here who may have been through something similar or who have more experience than me to offer advice and think through this. I’m generally an, if it aint broke don’t fix it, kind of person so I’m keen to stick with what I have. However, I see how this change could be a nice QOL for my homelab and I would get to utilize my new Tiny. Would this be worth it? Is it best practice to let a NAS be a NAS and a container server be a container server? What Linux distros would you recommend I put on my Tiny for something like this?