Oracle free tier is fine for messing around

This is the nightmare scenario i never want to happen, so i run Fedora Silverblue

Make it easier to host with docker-compose on arm64 hardware

I use black box flatpak.

Get Fedora Silverblue. It is rock solid. Install Distrobox or Boxes to emulate other systems on top of that.

You could also move on to something else later if toy like.