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Apple will allow Linux VMs to run Intel apps with Rosetta in macOS Ventura

arstechnica.com

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I’ve run the Windows ARM beta on my M1 MacBook Pro 13” and it boots quickly, runs fast and well, under Parallels. Office works good too. I had assumed that since this was a beta, that a regular ARM release would be coming soon, but apparently not? I use it to test compatibility for websites in Windows web browsers. They all work fine too.

It had been reported that supposedly Microsoft has a secret exclusivity deal with Qualcomm for Windows ARM to only ship with Qualcomm-powered devices.

Looking forward to this making running x86 containers workable. Hopefully Docker will add support in their VMs

How generous of them to sometimes allow you to use your hardware the way you want!

What kind of comment is this?

Apple didn't sell you an Apple Silicon Mac advertising support for Rosetta2 on Linux. They actually had to write code to support this. So props to Apple for doing this.

Its the sort of low-effort comment you should come to expect in the first few hours of articles about Apple. Eventually it will get buried, but it is a sort of toll we all must pay it seems.

An idiot who has no idea what they are talking about or even the nature of the discussion thinks they can score some cheap karma with a line that feels more like it should be about an iPhone than system software on macOS. I am guessing the author just has no clue what Rosetta is and their reading comprehension does not extend to the end of the title so they missed the little bit about macOS.

Cool, but what most people want is run x86_64 Windows on Apple Silicon.

ARM Windows builds run fine on Apple Silicon via Parallels. Windows also has a built-in x86 translation layer, so it is able to run most programs.

Source on this?

I doubt “most people” have even considered running windows at all, let alone amd64 windows.

If those “most people” really need windows software, they’d be much better off running windows on non-apple hardware directly, imho.

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