I’ve never used parallels, sorry

VMware fusion tech preview for Apple silicon

I’m late to the game, having tried debian for the first time a few weeks ago.

I’m running the aarch64 version (KDE) in a virtual machine on my Mac (M2) and it’s the only distro that, out of the box, hardware acceleration is working for video decode of web videos.

All other distro I’ve tried struggle to display YouTube videos.

Big thumbs up from me.

E.g. Brave browser at one point in the not too distant past automatically added affiliate links to cryptocurrency URLs

Brave is a PoS. They are not looking out for you

Not until it’s safe as commercial airliners. Then, sure.

I fixed this on some communities by unsubscribe and subscribing again (after the instances updated to 0.18.X)

Also Titanic. Spent a lot more then 20 mins myself though. I’m on like week 3 of my Titanic rabbit hole

Because I primarily use a laptop, Linux desktop is a no no for me. I spent years trying to get my trackpad to behave as beautifully as it does with MacOS and could never get it.

That alone is enough to drive me off Linux Desktop … For now.

I’m rooting for it though

Macgaming, realestate, Massachusetts.

They exist on Lemmy but verrrrrry quiet

Yeah it’s reaching critical mass I feel. So much more activity compared to a few weeks ago