Distance isn’t the only factor to consider. The infrastructure is also very important for determining if a short distance is walkable.

This YouTube channel has lots of great info on the topic https://youtube.com/notjustbikes and this video in particular demonstrations that not even all short distances are necessarily walkable in the US https://youtu.be/uxykI30fS54 @ 4:30 he begins to show a 800m walk in Houston from his hotel to a store.

Is there a reason to do this over just giving the nic for the vm/container a vlan tag?

Ok that was what I thought until I read the last part and got very confused lol

Gnome before it does not appeal to me today. Plasma on the other hand was exactly what I was looking for, plus it’s actively maintained and updated.

Very confused by this statement, are you implying Gnome isn’t actively maintained and updated or am I missing something?