Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on Apple Silicon

Re:Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on A... by pjmlp on Thursday November 07, 2024 @05:32AM (#42075435)

And the only way Desktop Linux will actually grow beyond the usual 1%.

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Re:Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on A... by ChocolateGod on Thursday November 07, 2024 @05:42AM (#42075483)

I don't think it counts as Desktop Linux if its running in a CLI-only VM targeted at developers on a different host OS.

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Re:Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on A... by cassianoleal on Thursday November 07, 2024 @07:12AM (#42075956)

It works on GUI VMs as well. UTM makes it very easy to use.

I agree it still doesn't help much with the desktop Linux bit though. :D

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Re:Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on A... by pjmlp on Thursday November 07, 2024 @09:09AM (#42076771)

It may not count, but that is what you will get in most shopping malls as "Desktop Linux" for common folks.

Even if you add Chromebooks as third option, Crostini runs in a VM just like WSL 2, and still has quite a few integration issues to this day.

Netbooks could have been it, but first they were torpedoed with Microsoft's clever move to make Windows XP licenses free for those OEMs, followed by the introduction and wide adoptions of tablets.

OEMs like Tuxedo or System 76 will remain a niche compared to how many people end up running GNU/Linux on desktop VMs.

Before WSL I had long moved away from dual boot into VMWare Workstation.

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Re:Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on A... by the8472 on Thursday November 07, 2024 @02:44PM (#42080145)

WSL runs GUIs too. And so did things like vmware and virtualbox for many years before it.

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Re:Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on A... by anonzzzies on Thursday November 07, 2024 @05:46AM (#42075501)

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

so 6%+ then :)

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Re:Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on A... by arghwhat on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:09PM (#42079190)

Which, to be fair, is something like tens of millions of Linux desktops. Several orders of magnitude less than the other types of Linux-powered computers out there though.

No one cares what the relative numbers are. As long as there is enough absolute users to justify the effort.

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Re:Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on A... by pjmlp on Thursday November 07, 2024 @05:10PM (#42081658)

Yeah, but those other ones don't run GNU/Linux for normies, which was the whole premise of The Year of Linux Desktop meme started on the last century.

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