I'd want to - or rather, the idea of managing a series of applications in a distributed fashion is interesting to me.

HOWEVER, i like to write distributed software that i want "uninformed" users to run. Aka not run on nice, automated k8 deployments - but on dirty, random computers.

My current idea is to run this software on all my personal PCs, but also a couple RaspPis over wifi in random locations.

Slow, poor connectivity machines sounds like a decent and predictably bad user environment.