this is quite similar to amazon-science Cyber-Zero ?

https://github.com/amazon-science/Cyber-Zero

the paper is quite interesting - https://arxiv.org/html/2508.00910v2

have you tried Windows + WSL2 ? i have been on fedora for 20 years.

WSL2 is one of the best linux experience you can have.

Sounds like an ad. No, any cross os operations need to happen via NTFS and using files on the mounted drives is horrible