There's a nice (pretty inclusive to beginners I might add) community for mac VMs on other OSes, but I've tried using such VMs for the past 4 years and each year

There's a nice (pretty inclusive to beginners I might add) community for mac VMs on other OSes, but I've tried using such VMs for the past 4 years and each year I've had worse results. * Is it usable for dev work -> yes * Is it like using a mac -> no Usually When I'm on windows, I generally just run a Ubuntu VM and live inside it. That is not something you can generally do on an OSX VM. (just to add, my opinions based on my experience - your milage may wary)