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UTM is great for basic stuff but performance has been abysmal so not really viable as a workhorse in my day to day.

Nothing beats Parallels on Mac, worth every penny.

If you're on apple silicon and the VM is x86, I agree the performance is abysmal. I'm pretty sure this is just a QEMU issue and not really the fault of UTM. If your VM is aarch64, the VM performance is amazingly great and I can't recommend UTM enough.

I also experienced performance problems with Arch Linux ARM through UTM. Parallels seems to perform much better for me.

One issue might be that only OpenGL 2.1 is supported: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/4285

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