Allow me to introduce you to VMware. It was bought out by Broadcom. That sounds like a tech firm buying a tech firm. It isn't really.
Broadcom is (not really) run by Robert Redford from the film "Pretty Woman", except this asset stripping exercise is rather more unpleasant than even his efforts.
VMware used to have a flourishing eco system. It managed to largely throw off plagiarism threats from when it was ESX vs ESXi. It was basically Linux (Redhat) with knobs on and fuck you freetards but here's a freebie version that we have cobbled together.
Anyway.
I was a VMware fanboi for roughly 25 years and now I am not. I was also a Windows (MS) fanboi too for some decades. Can't be arsed these days but I will.
Dealing with Windows and VMware is really unpleasant these days.