[Gud]

But configuring a FreeBSD system with zfs and samba is dead easy.

In my experience, a vanilla install and some daemons sprinkled on top works better than these GUI flavours.

Less breakage, fewer quirks, more secure.

YMMV and I’m not saying you’re wrong - just my experience

[bombcar]

I agree; I tried Free/TrueNAS and some other flavors of various things and always ran into annoying limitations and handholding I didn’t want; now I just use Gentoo with ZFS and do my own thing.