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If it was above board to download and run MacOS in VMWare as a guest under my linux host (slowdowns because of arc differences forgiven), I'd be way more willing dip a toe into the ecosystem and see how I like it...

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Aside from going into an Apple store, probably the cheapest way to try out the M1 Macs is to rent one from Scaleway (€0,10/hour + tax, minimum 24h - https://www.scaleway.com/en/hello-m1/ ).

If you were really curious you would use MacOS bare metal as shipped out of the box, with Linux running in a VM instead of wishing for premises you know won't happen.

Yes, I really am curious. And NO, your assumptions about what I would do if I really was curious aren't correct.

I had a mac book pro around 2011 (OS X snow leopard). half a dozen happy years with it until it was stolen. But these days since Apple is forbidding running MaxOS under virtualization, that's a deal breaker for me.

Apple have not forbidding running MacOS under virtualization for years...

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