Best Linux version for Sonarr/NZBGet

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Been thinking about moving my media server from Windows 7 to Linux so I can do software RAID 6.

I looked over on the Github page for Sonarr about installing it on various flavors of Linux and was wondering what is the preferred Linux distro for the least problematic Sonarr experience.

On a side note, DAMN. Installing Sonarr on Linux requires multiple (at least it appears so to me after looking at the install instructions) lines being typed out and more stuff to create a service and MORE stuff to make sure it has permissions to folders vs. just double clicking the .EXE in Windows.

I was looking into XPEnology to simplify the installation of Plex/Sonarr/NZBGet but Synology “repos” have older versions of Plex Media Server and Sonarr. I don’t think any Linux distro has those packages in their fancy “package managers” do they?

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I use to run it in Debian Wheezy host, then i decided to move it to a docker container. I used one at the beginning based on phusion base image (which is ubuntu 14.04).
Now i created my own image based on alpine linux to reduce the size. I’ve never had an issue with any of those.
The advantage of running in docker is you can launch multiple instances of sonarr in the same host. If you run sonarr in host you can only fire one instance.

You also need to consider mono, recommended version is 3.10, and some distros still default to that one or lower, like debian. Lately 3.10 is causing a lot of problems, so 4.x or higher is better.

I would personally use in host, Debian Jessie with a custom repo for a higher version of mono.