Bare metal just means not virtualized. There's no hypervisor between the OS and the hardware (the hardware is made of metal, therefore "bare metal"). If you buy

Bare metal just means not virtualized. There's no hypervisor between the OS and the hardware (the hardware is made of metal, therefore "bare metal"). If you buy a computer with Windows on it, Windows is running on bare metal. Hypervisors run on bare metal. So yeah, as you suggested, if you install Linux on your computer, the Linux Kernel is running on the bare metal.