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 ...

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 ...

Everyone’s third-favorite desktop operating system comes to the Mac. Image: PantheraLeo/Wikimedia Commons/D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Correction: This story was based on a misunderstanding of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most Linux types get massively bent out of shape when a PC isn't 100% Linux-able, yet here we are trying to make possibly the MOST un-Linuxable, MOST proprietary computer not to mention one of the ...