[ShellfishMeme]

For MacOS I can really recommend https://orbstack.dev

It integrates very nicely, has very low CPU idle usage and also lets you quickly spawn VMs with bidirectional file sharing set up.

Since I switched I haven't looked back.

[drzaiusx11]

"no more complicated VMs" -orbstack

Curious how this works without a VM, or have they created some sort of linux "shim", a la WSL1.x?

If it's something like WSL1.x it means you're not actually "running linux", which may have subtle repercussions like differences in threading etc since it's really a Darwin system wearing a Linux suit.

That said if you're writing a CRUD app in python, that probably won't matter to you so it's still worth the tradeoff.

[quinncom]

“OrbStack uses a lightweight Linux virtual machine with a shared kernel to minimize overhead and save resources, similar to WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux). This flexible architecture comes with many advantages such as high efficiency, low resource usage, seamless integration with macOS, and more.”

https://docs.orbstack.dev/architecture

[drzaiusx11]

Seems they're maintaining an unpublished fork of the Linux kernel "linux-macvirt" to achieve this. Apparently you have to contact them directly for a copy of the code[1]

https://github.com/orbstack/linux-macvirt