I am a tech savy person, but I have absolutely 0 experience working in Linux or doing any sort of networking so I’m getting lost.

You have no experience with Linux so you need to learn something. It might as well be Docker.

Have you looked at Linuxserver.io ? They’ve got Docker Compose configurations for a bunch of media applications, among others.

Linuxserver also have descriptions and Docker configs on Dockerhub.

So maybe that can help you start.