I’ve been starting my first homelab with proxmox and think it’s an excellent choice, but keep in mind even the best hypervisor software has a learning curve. Granted, I was having hardware issues, but it took me a long time to troubleshoot my setup when things were failing just because there’s a lot going on in the background.
I wouldn’t recommend anything else honestly, but just keep in mind you might not get it right the first time and that’s ok.
My only advice is to make sure you have backups of anything valuable, that way if you’re like me and something goes wrong, you don’t lose your media collection when the drive goes bad 🤡