[vishnu]

Microsoft has an official Docker MSSQL image built on top of Ubuntu.
I don't mind too much paying for software. But nothing like monthly payments or online activation. Or telemetry.

A friend of mine visited a computer museum in Poland a few weeks ago, and I wrote him while he was there to suggest a name change:
"Museum of computers that did what we told them to do"

If I need to use Expensive Commercial Software I just do it at work, where we have licenses for pretty much everything.

If I need one of my computers to do something it can't, I just write the code myself. Learn C and C++ and it will see you through life...