Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Switching from Linux to M1 MacBook

Re:Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Switching from Linux to M1 MacBook by dmarinus on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:52AM (#27005892)

If someone knows a way to keep using a Linux desktop environment on a MacBook I'm all ears! I've tried several ways, using Parallels, VirtualBox, QEmu, Docker Machine; using rdp, vnc, x2go/nx but all aren't snappy enough for my liking.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Switching from Linux to M1 MacBook by tga on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:34AM (#27006648)

I would recommend you try VMware Fusion.

https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html

From your list I've only tried VirtualBox and the experience wasn't so good, bad performance and many outright crashes.

Fusion was quite pleasant to use for my main work system. Make sure you give it enough RAM _and_ that you keep enough for the host, especially if you intend to also use it at the same time (I used to do 8GB and 8GB).

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Switching from Linux to M1 MacBook by jrjsmrtn on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:57PM (#27009722)

UTM is a newcomer and still has rough edges but I managed to install Debian Buster with Gnome. Both in x86_64 (slow) and ARM64 (snappy :-) flavors.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Switching from Linux to M1 MacBook by Engineering-MD on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:14AM (#27006040)

Is that with an M1 MacBook?

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Switching from Linux to M1 MacBook by dmarinus on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:16AM (#27006499)

No, a MacBook Pro 15,1.

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