I am well aware none of it will actually happen but nonetheless it would get more people to buy into what seems to be an excellent hardware platform. Apple had

I am well aware none of it will actually happen but nonetheless it would get more people to buy into what seems to be an excellent hardware platform. Apple had a record Mac quarter (July-September), generating a little over $9 billion in revenue; Mac sales were up 37% from the year before. A lot of this was due to people buying Macs to WFH during the pandemic. But it also shows they don't have to change what they've been doing to keep sales going. I suspect when Docker gets running on M1 Macs, a lot of the need to boot into Linux will dissipate. Same thing when Linux running in a VM on Apple Silicon Macs is much faster than any comparable PC hardware you can buy. Remember, they demoed Debian running in a VM on a prototype M1 Mac nearly 6 months ago, so we know it's coming. And while I get it—I used to help support a lab of triple-boot Macs (MacOS/Linux/Windows)—being able to boot 3rd party operating systems on manufacturers machines is going to become less common. With the goal is to diminish the attack surface for the bad guys, my hope is Apple's hypervisor technology will enable access to enough things to create a fast, workable VM solution for 3rd-party operating systems on M1 Macs without sacrificing security.