Replies

Hi Swordmaker, good to see you posting more often of late. I hope that your many travails and sadnesses of the past year are resolving. I think of you often, and you are in my prayers for strength and peace of mind.

One of the many reasons I have purchased only Mac hardware the past 15+ years is that I can run every other operating system I need to run, on MacOS using VMware, and they all run well. MacOS is a largely trouble-free platform itself, and as a host OS for the others.

VirtualBox is well reputed; many of the engineers I work with use it. Some use Parallels, though not as many, at least those I know. I'm sure that's fine too.

These days I wouldn't touch WINE with a 10-ft pole unless I was gaming, maybe.

My work-from-home environment is 95% Linux, which is an Ubuntu 20.04 VM on my work MacBook Pro. Runs like a champ, rarely any hiccups and those are usually my ISP's fault.

I haven't migrated to M1 hardware yet, as I have no compelling reason to do so, and it would break certain critical functions (until they catch up).

All for now.... take care, my FRiend.