“I did the graphical install earlier today where I chose the “Erase Disk” option and let it install in the way it wanted. Both the initial “live” environment seemed functional and the resulting installation seemed OK. I did a package update after the install and it upgraded about 8 packages. I also added the Parallels Desktop drivers and that installed properly on the first try. Overall, an excellent experience in Parallels. I assigned 4 CPUs and 8Gig of RAM.”
“I’ve played a bit with Mint this morning. It’s very fast on my laptop (M3 Max). I gave the VM 4 processors and 8 gig of RAM. A pretty “minimal” configuration, but the VM is still really fast.
I personally wouldn’t see the advantage of running Linux bare metal. Parallels VMs run very fast under Mac OS without a lot of CPU overhead. It’s much better than the Intel processor days when VMs really slowed the machine down.
I can run Firefox no problem complete with video on web pages.
I’m more used to the KDE environment so I installed KDE. To my surprise, the install went very well and I’m able to run that environment no problem.
I also have a Kubuntu VM and a VM running my usually favorite distribution: Gentoo. The Ubuntu distribution is a little glitchy and has some issues. I’m not impressed. The Mint environment seems more stable to me.
If people want to run the Mint environment, I think they’ll be very happy with the performance under Parallels.”
I successfully installed Linux Mint on a MacBook Air M3 without any issues. I just have a small keyboard problem: it occasionally switches back to QWERTY without me understanding why. Thanks again for quickly sending me the link to the installation ISO file.
Download was okay and Installationen on mac studio with parallels works great. thanks a lot! Great Work!
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I have downladed and installed LMDE 7 arm64. Great work and it looks very good!