I used to work like this with virtualbox Ubuntu on Windows host for front end dev. It worked great. Even had a AHK script that makes the vm fullscreen borderles

I used to work like this with virtualbox Ubuntu on Windows host for front end dev. It worked great. Even had a AHK script that makes the vm fullscreen borderless, bar the win 10 taskbar below, clean and super usable. The issue is I got an M1 mini mac for development, and I’d rather have the superior fonts and gui of Sublime, MacVim, etc. Granted they look pretty good already on Ubuntu. I feel like Docker container is the middle way here, you can keep the host clean from complex installs, and you can use evetything on the host to edit your code, since it’s so easy to map folders with Docker. I don’t really see a downside, although it is super convenient as well with a graphical vm, that you can archive and backup your entire vm, along with all your os preferences, editor settings, terminal settings etc. edit: I guess I could also use Macvim etc. on the host with shared folders but those shared folders are slower and have all kind of permission issues afaik, I think Docker mapped folders work better. Last time I heard Docker on Mac uses virtualization under the hood so it’s about the same as virtualbox (unlike os supported "containers" on linux host), but I don’t know if that is still true for M1?