I think opnsense is way more capable than unifi devices, even better if you are familiar. You could try Proxmox too, makes the box more flexible.

yes, thats the purpose of this device. works very well for me so far.

proxmox

well kind of if you count pikvm

thats unexpected, what are you doing thats being used by a majority of apple users?

i hear bad things about it, how does fedora server compare to debian?

when vendors pull this kind of crap ill simply not test on their software.

how is nix better than debian for servers?

people are rebuffing the criticism already.

heres the main advantage imo:

no messy system or leftovers. some programs use directories all over the place and it gets annoying fast if you host many services. sometimes you will have some issue that requires you to do quite a bit of hunting and redoing things.

docker makes this painless. you can deploy and redeploy stuff easily and quickly, without a mess. updates are painless and quick too, with everything neatly self-contained.

much easier to maintain once you get the hang of things.

you can probably even host your firewall in it

why?

and are annoying/impossible to use a more server oriented OS on