If you want to put in more work for more freedom, a lot of SBC’s can do something similar too.

That being said it builds up vulnerabilities in anti-cheats to another beautiful crowstrike like domino cluster fuck

I skimmed over your entire comment minus the part about docker, so if you answered this somewhere and I’m a dumbass I already accept fault,

that being said docker has taught me more about Linux than anything else, cause its like a micro Linux you can reliably bring up and take down on demand, without requiring risking breaking your GUI or something scary