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In the same spirit if "it depends", there are other options that may work for people with different Linux/Windows balance points:

* Wine is surprisingly good these days for a lot of software. If you only have an app or two that need Windows it is probably worth trying Wine to see if it meets your needs.

* Similarly, if gaming is your thing Valve has made enormous strides in getting the majority of games to work flawlessly on Linux.

* If neither of the above are good enough, dual booting is nearly painless these days, with easy setup and fast boot times across both OSes. I have grub set to boot Linux by default but give me a few seconds to pick Windows instead if I need to do one of the few things that I actually use Windows for.

Which you go for really depends on your ratio of Linux to Windows usage and whether you regularly need to mix the two.

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And you also can just run a windows VM when needed for a few apps if that works for your use case.

I'm struggling to find an option for running x86 Windows software on MacOS/Apple Silicon performantly. (LiDAR point cloud processing.)

The possibilities seem endless and kinda confusing with Windows on ARM vs Rosetta and Wine, think there's some other options which use MacOS's included virtualization frameworks.

That’s interesting; I’d expect something techie like that to have good Linux programs.

Have you tried to install Windows 11 ARM under UTM on Mac? UTM is a kind of open source Parallels. Then you'll run x86 software using Windows' variant of Rosetta. Probably slower than Rosetta but perhaps good enough.

I wanted to play around with Windows 11 for a while now. It boots in UTM just to the degree that I can confirm my suspicions that Windows 11 sucks compared to Windows 10, but is not otherwise usable. (MacBook Air M3, slightly outdated macOS)

In case others were similarly confused, I thought that UTM was commercial but it is Apache 2 https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/blob/v4.6.5/LICENSE

Have you tried CloudCompare? Native Mac ARM support.

https://www.cloudcompare.org/

(Edit: just so you know, the UI is a bit weird, there is a bit of a learning curve. But the app behaves in a very sane manner, with every step the previous state is maintained and a new node is created. It takes time to get used to it, but you'll learn to appreciate it.

May your cloud have oriented normals, and your samples be uniformely distributed. Godspeed!)

I like cloudcompare, but it's not really in the same space. I'm trying to achieve bulk tile processing of large datasets using LASTools

Try Whisky: https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky

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