[renegade-otter]

Wouldn't it be simpler to just have a 'Nix running in a VMWare Fusion? Why go through this pain?

I am on a Mac, but my work is done on a Mint.

[hobotime]

Native on apple silicon can be magical. I remember Jupyter being awesome once I found the goat to sacrifice to get it to install a few years back.

[pyridines]

If it's already a massive house of cards, setting that all up all over again might be a nightmare.

[jbverschoor]

Just run orbstack. Gives you nix or Debian. Or use a persistent docker.