Absolutely total beginner. But I was just super surprised after years of "download JVM, unzip, run, don't care about what linux you are running on" with Java t

Absolutely total beginner. But I was just super surprised after years of "download JVM, unzip, run, don't care about what linux you are running on" with Java that when I tried to do that with .NET core it was so different. Java is so easy I often embed a JVM for each app I am running. Meanwhile for .NET I could only find operating system specific packages, they all required root to deploy and installed it system-wide rather than locally. Could not find any easy way other than docker to make a self contained deployment. I see people below telling me this is not so but if that's the case it certainly wasn't obvious when I was doing it (2 years ago).