[eyberg]

I can't speak for all the various projects but imo these aren't made for bare metal - if you want true bare metal (metal you can physically touch) use linux.

One of the things that might not be so apparent is that when you deploy these to something like AWS all the users/process mgmt/etc. gets shifted up and out of the instance you control and put into the cloud layer - I feel that would be hard to do with physical boxen cause it becomes a slippery slope of having certain operations (such as updates) needing auth for instance.