It really, honestly, is super easy to get going. All you need is a folder with your media and a compose file you can find in plenty of tutorials.

The thing we Linux nerds often forget, I think, is that we know what we're doing (most of us at least I hope), and regular people don't.

I can read a simple compose file and pretty quickly notice if there's something off.

If you wanted to do that, you'd first have to read up on containers and compose and all that stuff. You can, of course, just grab a compose file and run it, but that's generally not a great idea if you don't know what you're doing.