[pmarreck]

I have a macOS VM under VMWare running on Windows. It wasn't that difficult, found some guides online by googling obvious search words. The only thing I haven't gotten to work yet is the App Store, but I saw a guide for that, just haven't done it yet. You won't get graphics acceleration btw, but CPU performance is fine.

I believe the trickiest bit was running a macOS serial generation app and copying that value into the VM settings.

(I've purchased plenty of Macs over the years so pls Apple, this is just for dev purposes!)

[rdsnsca]

Enjoy it while it last, in 3 or 4 years Apple will drop Intel macOS support.

[pmarreck]

By then, Windows 11+ will have moved onto ARM and whatever cross binary solution Microsoft is working on should be complete. Also, with emulation/virtualization, it's still perfectly feasible

[hulitu]

I don't want to destroy your hope but take a look at ARM support in linux. (TL;DR the ARM space is very fragmented so taking a running system from one machine with ARM to another is not possible).

[pmarreck]

Fortunately, Linux lets you install things by compiling them locally instead of just auto-downloading a binary.

Are you saying that "aarch64" binaries don't run on all ARM chips?

[disiplus]

3 or 4 years. sure not, they still sell intel macs on the website.