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Exciting news! While I am mainly a Mac user, Linux is the other operation system I use (usually via VM on the Mac) and the one alternative operating system I wo
by _ph_ 5y ago
Exciting news! While I am mainly a Mac user, Linux is the other operation system I use (usually via VM on the Mac) and the one alternative operating system I would use, if I would not have a Mac. Being able to boot into Linux directly adds a lot of value. While I don't have an ARM Mac yet, this gives even more incentive to order a Mac Studio :) (I assume support for that is coming soon).
I am wondering why Apple doesn't support this more directly. That would be just a tiny drop out of the marketing budget. But at least there seems to be some good will in the relevant OS department with recent changes from which Asahi Linux benefited.
On a side note, as long as the graphics are CPU rendered, is this rendering multi-threaded and would benefit from the beefier M chips?
- mark_l_watson 5y agoI agree with you that it would be good if Apple supported Linux containers directly, like ChromeOS and Windows. I bought a $350 Lenovo Chromebook last year and in addition to touchscreen and included keyboard case and pencil, it also has seamless integration for using Linux containers. I don’t own a Windows machine, but I have heard good reports about their Linux container system. All that said, I would be delighted if Apple supported an M1 version of VirtualBox.
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago> I would be delighted if Apple supported an M1 version of VirtualBox. They almost do, Apple ships Hypervisor.framework with macOS. You still need an app to interface with it, but Apple’s framework does most of the work. You might be interested in https://github.com/machyve/xhyve https://github.com/machyve/xhyve Asahi Linux, of course, isn’t that. Asahi Linux runs on bare metal.