We’ve been working to improve Ubuntu support in the 2022.1 release (imminent) but there are a few documents to help get you started on that e.g. Installation headaches and (partly) fixes on Ubuntu 20.04 - #6 by Axel
I would definitely advise against using a VM to run experiments due to performance issues. A Docker image is an interesting idea as a way to provide a ready-to-go installation for ubuntu. We’ll look into it