After trying out Cosmos Cloud (and it not working for the clients), I’m back at square one again. I was going to install Docker Desktop, but I see it warns that it runs on a VM. Will this be a problem when trying to remote connect to certain services, like Mealie or Jellyfin?


container management is just the tip of selfhosting with docker.
learning the CLI will go a long way to help themselves later when they need to learn it to fix something the UI doesn’t handle well.
would you have preferred noob?
I agree with you on this, but we don’t now the constraints of OP. Perhaps the mentioned clients need access. Ask instead of assume.
I have no problem with other people’s level of knowledge, be it greater or lesser than mine. I have a problem with how you conveyed your message. Here is how you could have phrased it instead, as an example of what I meant with “be nicer”.