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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by speedgoose on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @06:33AM (#36784282)
If you already run ARM Linux VMs, it’s not much differences. The VMs host will run macOS instead of Linux but that’s not the end of the world.
Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by tjoff on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:00AM (#36784487)
As if the typical use case is to run ARM Linux VMs... But fine.

The typical solution, if VMs are your use case, is to use a hypervisor, such as XCP-NG, proxmox, ESXi etc. But if you want to shoehorn in OS X just for the sake of it, sure, that will work. But I guess you'd have to be pretty deep into apples ecosystem to even consider that.

And with VMs you typically want RAM and disk-space, and if you pick such a closed ecosystem that is going to be a real bummer.

Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by speedgoose on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @08:05AM (#36784982)
If most of the devops people already use macs, it’s not too crazy.

But that’s a good point. I would say that we are in the DIY infrastructure world as deploying VMs on a Mac mini or NUC isn’t really following the industry best practices, but installing proxmox on a amd64 box is probably easier.

Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by jojobas on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:48AM (#36786275)
The VMs that mac-wielding DevOps guys deploy don't go into their laptops.