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by tommoor 1937 days ago
Love my M1, but a heads up – if you're dependent on Postgres-based tests running inside of Docker (quite a common usecase!) the performance is completely unusable still:

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5236

We're talking a suite that normally takes 30 seconds taking 10+ minutes.

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My solution for such is parallels beta (m1 supported), and arm Debian Linux.
So you primarily use a virtualized Linux install on your M1 machine for dev work? That seems really cumbersome... at that point I’d just point to a headless Linux server