Because buying the solution is boring!
If you’re building a NAS at home, you’ll eventually hit the same fork in the road I did: TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault, or just buy a QNAP (or even a DAS). On paper they all solve the same problem. In reality, they’re very different tools with very different tradeoffs.
I’ve used or seriously evaluated all of them while building my Plex, torrent, and media automation setup. This post breaks down the real pros and cons, then explains exactly why I landed on OpenMediaVault.
Radarr is one of those tools that quietly becomes critical once you start using it. It handles movie monitoring, quality upgrades, and automation, and it does it well. In this post, I’ll walk through how I install Radarr on a Linux-based system using the official repository.
If you’re brand new to Linux concepts like package managers, services, or the terminal, I strongly recommend starting withA Beginner’s Guide to Linux before continuing.