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I'm hoping that at least the basics will be here (posix shell, vim, browser, etc), I won't need anything else for a long long time.

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Like the grandparent comment, I would avoid this M1 Macbook since the developer ecosystem is still unsupported by it. Take this for example: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733

Docker still doesn't run on Apple Silicon Macs, so the migration path is already disrupted here.

Docker and Boot Camp like the only things that don't work, for fairly obvious reasons.

Personally, I feel like docker is a intermediary product in terms of evolution between servers and cloud, and it's been massively over hyped.

Many use cases, especially when it comes to microservices can almost always better served by something else

You say “still” as if Apple silicon Macs are more than a day old.

Developers were able to start working on Apple Silicon software several months ago.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-announces-mac-t...

The DTK doesn't support virtualization. The final product might.

We can include the A12Z developer transition kit, which is an 'Apple Silicon Mac' which was available since July.

The problem here is that in WWDC, Apple showed Docker Desktop running on an Apple Silicon system (maybe suggesting that it is at least running) and here we are in November it is still not running or not known if Apple Silicon is supported.

I don't see any patches in the Docker repositories on such support, thus maybe Apple has a private fork for Apple Silicon. In general it is not available to us and we don't know when it will be.

Not everyone needs to run Docker.

Citation needed.

All of those are there.

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