[maldev]

I'm a big windows guy, pretty much windows only. Recently bought a macbook. I love windows so much that I set up my shell on the mac to be powershell and use Windows Terminal to SSH into the mac.

I'm REALLY happy with parallel desktop. It runs any productivity or programming app I've needed. It also makes it as if it's running natively on the mac, you can just open up some windows app and it pops up like a mac one. It works amazingly fast, and I can develop both x64, x32, ARM apps in visual studio on my VM. Games don't work because of DRM, but I just use Parsec to stream my desktop if I want to game anyways, so it doesn't affect my workflow. And any game I would actually play while traveling is on the mac natively.

For linux I only emulate Kali, and it works good, I love how the VM's pop up as a "Virtual desktop" so I can side swipe it, but linux vm's don't have the native integration like Windows. Once nested virtualization is enabled, i'll probably stick it in WSL, I personally don't use Linux that much since I think it's shit.

The only downside is some asshole at Apple won't put in nested virtualization for the VM's, even though M2 and M3 have support for it on linux.

[freedomben]

If you don't mind me asking, why did you buy a macbook?

[maldev]

It's my first Mac, and I bought it because the actual machine is magical. It's so well built and has so many little things that make it great. I thought it was dumb and overhyped until my girlfriend got a M2. I then looked up the virtualization and played around with it a bit, and bar games, it's the best laptop for running Windows apps. And even then, it runs every game I would play on the road.

I also really liked the memory layout they have. I have been messing around a ton with ML/AI, it's able to do local models faster than chatgpt and get like 70% the accuracy. I have a pretty beastly desktop setup, and it's a joy to use such a solid machine in bed while i'm watching TV.