[juusto]

To me the downsides on installing on pure metal are bigger than running over something like UTM.

On my maxed out M1 Max I have a VM with Ubuntu 22.04. Runs flawless, I can expose IPs, share folders and multitask with macOS. And it runs very well with 10Gb of RAM and 3 CPU's.

Maybe in a few years an outdated mini could be my home server with Linux on bare metal but for work and play I prefer the flexibility of running on a VM.

[jacquesm]

To me there are only upsides: I don't like the Mac operating system but I love the hardware and running Ubuntu natively with all hardware supported would probably get me to upgrade. But I'm patient, the oldies are doing just fine, sooner or later that will just fall into my lap so no need to start taking risks running fresh stuff.