Thank you for the answer! Maybe I should look into btrfs a bit more, as I am honestly interested in learning new things (thus wanting to switch), but I’m also scared easily when the amount of things to learn increases beyond my level of comfort. The NAS is supposed to serve as the host for a couple virtual machines as well, like a pihole-VM for my home network and another VM that serves as the entry point from the internet so that I can access my nas on the go. All of that is already set up and running with the nas being on ubuntu, but I have new hardware ordered and want to try something new to go along it while keeping the functionality that’s currently covered.
I like to mess around with things, but not always and I do need to work on my patience if stuff doesn’t work and I dont understand why. That’s why I figured leap would be a good ubuntu-replacement, as it’s not as involved as something like arch would be, while also being different enough from ubuntu for me to gain more experience. Your btrfs-raid is still done through mdadm though, right? Btrfs does not come with integrated raid-like features like zfs does?