I mount my W2019 domain data volume with proxmox. I also mount them on any VM in service including Mint, fedora running the Arr stack and Jellyfin. They both mount and read/write to this large ntfs volume (~100TB). The cifs mount works mostly fine, but can be quirky at times. I am planning steps to migrate this data to a native Linux environment and I would think that should be your eventual setup too. It just works better. Start jumping in on Mint and search whenever you are stumped. I can nearly always find an answer in their forums. I suggest Mint as the query nets you cast will return more results than if you load a lesser used distro. Once you get your sea legs, you can play more and explore others. Start loading them up in Proxmox!