Linux on the desktop has been foiled once again. Image: PantheraLeo/Wikimedia Commons/D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Last week, I wrote a story incorrectly concluding that a full Linux desktop ...

VirtualBox is feature-rich with broad Linux distro support, but may have slower performance on modern Apple silicon Macs. UTM is lightweight, optimized for Apple silicon Macs, and easy to use, but ...

Great hardware with some frustrating gaps ...

M1 Mac Linux 6.2 support is now available – an achievement that Linux creator Linus Torvalds originally saw as an impossible task. It can be run on the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra chips. Torvalds ...

A few years ago, the idea of running PC games on a Mac, in Linux, or on Arm processors would have been laughable. But the developers behind Asahi Linux—the independent project that is getting Linux ...

Docker is an important tool for developers and for running apps across networks, and it has many uses for the pro and hobbyist alike. Here's how you can get started using the containerization tech on ...

It’s an odd thing to see the leaders of an impressive open source project ask the press and their followers to please calm down and stop celebrating their accomplishments. But the builders of the one ...

With so much news at 2025's Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, you might be excused for missing that Apple quietly revealed it was releasing and open-sourcing a new open-source containerization ...

UTM is a cross-platform emulator that allows you to run macOS, Windows, or Linux. Here's how to use it to run very old versions of Apple's Mac operating system. But there's another great free OS ...