Comment by smashed

20 hours ago

What is the purpose here? You are still stuck with a full blown MacOS running the system no? That is what Asahi tries to replace, not the other way around.

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jjtheblunt  20 hours ago

I'd recommend reading up on it, and perhaps trying it, because it's very useful.

For folks lamenting that the (awesome) Asahi efforts are challenged by reverse engineering of changes from M2 to M3, and so on, those changes vanish into the abstraction, but their benefits do not. That's why i switched from Asahi a couple years ago to UTM in apple silicon hypervisor mode.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-virtual-machines

  • trompetenaccoun  4 hours ago

    The point is some people who want to run Linux mostly do not want MacOS. You suggest to "just run MacOS" (the thing they want to avoid) and virtualize Linux. That defeats the entire purpose, then you could just as well skip the VM and run Mac apps. Yes, there are a few specialized applications people might need Linux for but that's mostly not why they install an entirely different OS. For the occasional obscure programm that doesn't exist in the Apple ecosystem VMs are a good option, absolutely. Everything you do in the VM still runs on Mac though and you depend on Apple for security, privacy and trust in general.

GeekyBear  20 hours ago

It serves the exact same purpose that WSL does in Windows.

You can run any flavor of Linux you like in a virtual machine, while booted into the native OS.

MomsAVoxell  20 hours ago

The purpose is to be able to run a decent Linux setup while also having MacOS for things. Not everyone is stuck on the anti-Apple train; some of us put software on all the platforms and thus using the hypervisor for this use case is quite comfortable. Disclaimer: personal experience - I too use UTM for highly productive things..