I would be tempted to try this but both of my M1 Macs only have 8G of memory. For text/shell only Linux, I have been using https://github.com/lima-vm/lima http

I would be tempted to try this but both of my M1 Macs only have 8G of memory. For text/shell only Linux, I have been using https://github.com/lima-vm/lima https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for the last week and for what I needed (I wanted to setup picolisp and Emacs for some experiments) it was all good.