

I install python into my user directory on debian and it works great. But if you need to run a particular version of python as root I’d go the container (podman/docker/etc) instead of virtualbox. Massive performance benefit over vbox as containers share your host OS kernel and generally integrates better into tooling. You just specify an image by name like 3.13-bookworm and you get a container with python 3.13 on a debian bookworm equivalent userland

The reason for a lack of development is basically entirely economics. expensive to make, and difficult to make money on since the established players can already operate for cheap and even economically bully new players