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by influx 1344 days ago
Anyone have suggestion on how to run a Linux Window manager on ARM OSX? I’ve tried running the native x11 client and several virtual machines, and they all felt sluggish compared to native.

I guess I’ll eventually dual boot, but it would nice to have iMessage as an alt-tab.
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razemio 1344 days ago
Sounds strange I know but without doubt what works best for me is freexrdp. It's good enough to feel native if you do not use 3d acceleration or heavy 2d acceleration. Even videoplayback is okay.

On OSX then just use any RDP client to your liking to connect to the vm/container.

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jay-aye-see-key 1344 days ago
UTM is really good. It’s basically just a nice GUI around QEMU. But their bundled version of QEMU also includes a patch to get SPICE working, the homebrew and Macports versions don’t have SPICE working so clipboard access and auto display resizing doesn’t work. Or at least I couldn’t get them to work.

The Ubuntu ARM image from their “gallery” works perfectly out of the box so is a good starting point.

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