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 ![Connectable status](./resource/image/connectable-status.png)
 
-## Installation
+## What is this?
+
+I've been using docker compose to build and manage my *Jellyfin* server for
+almost 2 years. I love what containerization enables but I am unhappy with `yaml`
+as the language for expressing my system. I moved my personal desktop and
+workstation pc to *NixOS* and have seen the light, but I am not sure that I
+want to do containers under *NixOS* right now.
+
+What I did want was a fully FOSS container stack. I have explored `podman` at
+arm's length and finally discovered that there is a compose-like interface for
+choreographing my containers, but it isn't `yaml`. It's actually `systemd`,
+which has already been orchestrating service lifetimes even longer than
+`docker` by three years!
+
+This new declarative configuration is known as `quadlets`, and they are just
+`systemd` unit files. I already run some of my own personal startup
+applications as `systemd` user services, because it works across any window
+manager or desktop environment. One autostart to rule them all, then.
+
+The following sections of this document are my notes for building this system
+from scratch, assuming you bring your own hardware. It should be easy to modify
+them for another distribution if necessary. All notes and instructions are
+commandline, because it's more universal and easier to copy & paste. I do not
+know if there are GUI ways to do all of the necessary steps with *Cockpit* or a
+hypervisor like *Proxmox*.
+
+The end goal is make this a repository of `quadlet` stacks that are easy to
+reuse. It would be similar to the `linuxserver.io` fleet, but I don't think
+there is much need anymore for more custom containers. Many upstreams now
+provide ready-built containers that we need only configure.
+
+## Operating System
 
 My proof of concept server running this container stack is built on AlmaLinux
 9.4. `podman` and `systemd` with `quadlet` support is required if you are using another