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* crisp display * nice battery life * Linux friendliness Not elusive at all, you can find an M1 MacBook Pro at any Apple, Best Buy, or Costco store.

Kinrany 5y ago
M1 are not Linux-friendly at all.
- DrBenCarson 5y ago
  I can run a Linux vm emulating x64 or aarch64 right now on M1… Not to mention zsh is the login shell out of the box… It’s more flexible that WSL2 in my opinion See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for a very friendly QEMU wrapper running on M1
- astrange 5y ago
  Run it in a VM. Works fine.
  - Shared404 5y ago
    This is like responding "well you can make the civic look like a sports car, that should cover you!" when someone says "I want to drive fast".
    - astrange 5y ago
      There's some concerns about paravirtualized GPU performance, but the equivalent of "sports car" (workstation/server-like workloads) runs in VMs in cloud providers all the time.
vorpalhex 5y ago
You can't even run unsigned apps on your M1. There is linux support slowly coming thanks to the fine folks on Asahi, but it is very pre-beta.
- DrBenCarson 5y ago
  I can run a Linux vm emulating x64 or aarch64 right now on M1… It’s more flexible that WSL2 in my opinion See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for a very friendly QEMU wrapper
  - vorpalhex 5y ago
    I can write a program and send it to my friend - and they can actually run it - without me paying $99/year to Apple. Try that on your M1.
    - DrBenCarson 5y ago
      You can run unsigned software on an M1 Mac, clicking “run anyway” isn’t that hard lol
      - vorpalhex 5y ago
        That is untrue for native arm apps. The OS actually requires signing. If you are running an x86 app through Rosetta you can currently avoid code signing requirement. https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-require-signed-code/ https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-...
        DrBenCarson 5y ago
        What’s the big deal? They don’t require it to be notarized. You can self-sign. Quite frankly no one should be running unsigned binaries regardless of OS or architecture.

Kinrany 5y ago

M1 are not Linux-friendly at all.

DrBenCarson 5y ago
I can run a Linux vm emulating x64 or aarch64 right now on M1… Not to mention zsh is the login shell out of the box… It’s more flexible that WSL2 in my opinion See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for a very friendly QEMU wrapper running on M1
astrange 5y ago
Run it in a VM. Works fine.
- Shared404 5y ago
  This is like responding "well you can make the civic look like a sports car, that should cover you!" when someone says "I want to drive fast".
  - astrange 5y ago
    There's some concerns about paravirtualized GPU performance, but the equivalent of "sports car" (workstation/server-like workloads) runs in VMs in cloud providers all the time.

vorpalhex 5y ago

You can't even run unsigned apps on your M1. There is linux support slowly coming thanks to the fine folks on Asahi, but it is very pre-beta.

DrBenCarson 5y ago
I can run a Linux vm emulating x64 or aarch64 right now on M1… It’s more flexible that WSL2 in my opinion See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for a very friendly QEMU wrapper
- vorpalhex 5y ago
  I can write a program and send it to my friend - and they can actually run it - without me paying $99/year to Apple. Try that on your M1.
  - DrBenCarson 5y ago
    You can run unsigned software on an M1 Mac, clicking “run anyway” isn’t that hard lol
    - vorpalhex 5y ago
      That is untrue for native arm apps. The OS actually requires signing. If you are running an x86 app through Rosetta you can currently avoid code signing requirement. https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-require-signed-code/ https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-...
      - DrBenCarson 5y ago
        What’s the big deal? They don’t require it to be notarized. You can self-sign. Quite frankly no one should be running unsigned binaries regardless of OS or architecture.