M1 are not Linux-friendly at all.

I can run a Linux vm emulating x64 or aarch64 right now on M1…

Not to mention zsh is the login shell out of the box…

It’s more flexible that WSL2 in my opinion

See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for a very friendly QEMU wrapper running on M1

Run it in a VM. Works fine.

This is like responding "well you can make the civic look like a sports car, that should cover you!" when someone says "I want to drive fast".

There's some concerns about paravirtualized GPU performance, but the equivalent of "sports car" (workstation/server-like workloads) runs in VMs in cloud providers all the time.

You can't even run unsigned apps on your M1. There is linux support slowly coming thanks to the fine folks on Asahi, but it is very pre-beta.

I can run a Linux vm emulating x64 or aarch64 right now on M1…

It’s more flexible that WSL2 in my opinion

See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for a very friendly QEMU wrapper

I can write a program and send it to my friend - and they can actually run it - without me paying $99/year to Apple.

Try that on your M1.

You can run unsigned software on an M1 Mac, clicking “run anyway” isn’t that hard lol

That is untrue for native arm apps. The OS actually requires signing. If you are running an x86 app through Rosetta you can currently avoid code signing requirement.

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-...

What’s the big deal? They don’t require it to be notarized. You can self-sign.

Quite frankly no one should be running unsigned binaries regardless of OS or architecture.