L ast year, Apple launched a range of MacBooks and Macs that run on its own ARM-based M1 SoCs, in a break from relying on Intel hardware. It also recently launched two new MacBook Pros that come with either the M1 Pro or M1 Max chips, which are vastly more powerful versions of the M1.
Coinciding nicely with this launch, Canonical has announced an update to its Multipass project (https://multipass.run). This will enable people to run Linux on Apple’s M1 hardware via an Ubuntu virtual machine, which can launch with a single command. According to Canonical in a blog post that can be read at https://bit.ly/lxf284ubuntum1, “developers on M1 can now get running on Linux in as little as 20 seconds.”