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Re:Docker for Mac M1 RC by 600frogs on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:44PM (#26515486)
Interesting, that might be a dealbreaker then. Have you found significant slowdowns in working in a VM vs native, both in terms of compilation and day-to-day work, or has it been negligible/unnoticeable?

P.S. thanks for making an account just for this reply :)

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Re:Docker for Mac M1 RC by hazaskull on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:01PM (#26515706)
Needed to create one for a long time ;) General cpu-bound tasks seem fine in a vm; i/o is definitely slower but much to my surprise linux’s ext4 filesystem is so much more efficient (?) than ntfs for small files that even inside a vm (vbox or wsl) git actions are noticably quicker than on native Windows! I’d prefer is wsl2 for convenience over vbox if I could but my VPN is indeed the dealbreaker and corp. won’t support any other VPN software
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