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You left out a part of the sentence;

Note that Forgejo does not run the jobs, it relies on the Forgejo Runner to do so. It needs to be installed separately.

And:

As of Forgejo v1.21, Actions is enabled by default.

So yeah. it depends on how you look at it. For me it means it’s part of Forgejo.

Yes it is? Check the docs

I’m running a normal linux distro, with everything running in containers using docker compose files. No VMs, since they are overkill for my needs. I’m running stuff like the *arr stack, home assistant, smokeping, unifi controller, pihole etc. Setting it up is quite simple, and the distro can be whatever you prefer (I use Arch btw).