Yes, your desire to not use virtualization is pretty fringe. Modern hypervisors easily achieve performance almost equivalent to bare-metal. And virtualization c

Yes, your desire to not use virtualization is pretty fringe. Modern hypervisors easily achieve performance almost equivalent to bare-metal. And virtualization comes with numerous benefits making it outright preferable to bare-metal for many use cases. I think you'd be perfectly happy using something like KVM if you have the right hardware and are willing to figure a few things out.