Qubes OS has very high system requirements, so that would not work.

Thank you for reply.

I will checkout Alpine. It sounds interesting.

Video games are not my focus, do you know how do VMs run on Alpine (with Alpine as VM host) - performance wise?

Thank you for reply.

By the rest of your post, I’d bet on B. Which, puts us into an interesting situation

Yes, I would be ok with A as well, but I am learning things slowly to get to that point. So B for now would be great.

But it seems like OpenBSD might not be great for running VMs - https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/openbsd/comments/11ev3l4/is/_it/_a/_bad/_idea/_to/_use/_openbsd/_as/_a/_vm/_host/

Could not find much info for virtualization support on HardenedBSD though.
Not sure how well bhyve work there, but it seems like VMs might not work well or be performant enough on either of them.

I would try with Alpine, Artix or Void for now.