Side question, have you considered installing Proxmox and after that installing the graphical interface that comes with Debian? In this way you can have a Proxmox + Desktop.
I did not test it but I'm curious if it works to have Linux Mint LMDE...
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Make sure the cars is compatible with all motherboards. I had the surprise with some HP 10Gbit PCIe cards that worked only with HP motherboards, it was...