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Another potential benefit of the iPad over macOS alternatives: you can get a waterproof case for an iPad. There’s just no easy way to make a macOS device waterproof.

As for virtualization of other OS on iOS: already exists!

https://getutm.app/

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Ah shit that looks awesome, didn't know it! thank you!

Check out ish.app also!

https://ish.app/

https://github.com/ish-app/ish

Awesome thank you! I also didn't know about this AltStore linked on the iSH website, seems nice to have alternative stores without having to jailbreak

iSH is great and has a lot of features, but the only problem I have with it is slowness and lagging.

Do you know of any suitable alternatives?

I guess there’s always Android.

I’ll stick with (jailbroken) iOS, thanks.

Blink Shell (which is free) but requires VPS to work with.

Awesome! I appreciate the recommendation.

https://blink.sh/

https://github.com/blinksh/blink

Beware - performance isn’t great and you can crash your iPad (I’ve don’t it — it was quite scary as I had never seen that happen). The iPad just doesn’t have enough memory to make running a VM a viable option for coding on an iPad, even an iPad Pro.

(My experience from a few years ago on an iPad Pro 12.9).

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