I have downloaded a copy from here.
Would you say an offline VM should provide a kinda sorta safe test environment or should I really run this on some old metal? I really want to try it and a VM seems more comfortable to revert after messing shit up, but seeing as this is an operating system from a horrible totalitarian dictatorship, I fear publicly available versions might be leaked on purpose to get decadent Westerners like me to install, revel in my perceived superiority and then wind up as an unwilling proxy for Kim surfing Pornhub?
Maybe I should just try Justin Bieber Linux[0] instead ...