I believe it. I have been partially following along with your endeavor lol. I have an unpublished blog for proxmox problem solving I ran into, but its all cluster problems, so hopefully with a simple install you shouldn't have too much of a struggle. My cluster has been pretty stable for the past few months.

Recommendation once your ready for VMs. Consider setting up a Fedora Server machine and playing with it. If you get the hang of it, you may consider using it as the base OS for your needs.

- Fast a crap (like a 5 second halt to login, booting from a network SAN)

- Cockpit web gui is really nice and is already setup

- Podman + cockup gui container management

- Firewall + network and VM gui managment (that actually works well)

- Takes up less than 5gb of disk for a full install (i usually provision 16gb disks and most of them are under 6gb)

- Automatic (or manual) updates directly through gui

I have switched mostly to Fedora server for all VM base OS's and have been a huge fan lately. I think it is much simpler to manage that proxmox if you just want to run some apps/vms/containers. But take your time, mess around!