10 days
Generally speaking:
- just want it to work with minimal effort: containers
- need very custom things, or very high efficiency: bare metal
- need high security, emulating bare metal, or like to do extra IT work: virtualization
Generally, these days, containers win 99% of the time as the best home lab backbone.

Fucking snow flake anti ai nerds, like you weren’t just pressing keys all day anyway, who cares if now it’s just one key??
/s