A terminal isn’t enough for everything, especially developers. I use lots of win...

galleywest200 · 2026-03-04T16:22:03 1772641323

As well, if you run an aarch64 VM with virtualization there is essentially no lag. It runs great. I have an Alpine Linux one on my M2 Macbook Pro.

Crestwave · 2026-03-05T02:49:41 1772678981

Good to hear. What hypervisor are you using (UTM, VMWare, Parallels)?

dajt · 2026-03-05T08:24:46 1772699086

I use UTM, it's simple and seems light. I can share my source directory with the VM so I can edit using macos pycharm, and test the containers in the VM.

What really caught me out was I downloaded an x64 image once (there was no arm64 image) and it somehow just ran anyway in the arm64 VM. That may have been some qemu magic?

I love the macos/virtualised linux dev workflow, but is isn't better than plain linux. I'm just still not convinced GUI stuff works on linux as well as it does on macos and macbook hardware is so nice (if you're not paying for it).