Could you explain why this is the same?

You have the ability to whip up this BS about proton, but a web search for “private email provider” was too much?

Looks like one of the qotom/topton boxes you can find on aliexpress.

Can also pick them up with preinstalled *sense from Protectli (which I did I regretted nothing, totally great experience.)

But this post didn’t suggest Docker, it suggested a VM. This would be a totally sensible thing to do as you can just recreate it if you mess it up. Virtualbox works fine on Windows and Linux. Install it and spin up a distro.

Mate, the suggestions you have been given for VMs and docker are to help you recover easily should you mess up. If you are going to moan about that…maybe just install bare metal and get on with it yourself?