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"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6
Microsoft did a good job with Windows Terminal and WSL, one of the reasons I use less macOS today is precisely that. I would love to run full Linux and I've given it a few attempts but then when there's no (real) MS Office, Adobe etc. things go downhill. To be fair if one has to virtualize to get stuff done I would rather be on macOS, at least I would have less to virtualize.
Yeah that's a common issue with virtualizing macOS. Even on VMWare it can be painful, the issue isn't lack of resources it's a 3D acceleration / GPU thing. macOS has limited support for GPUs as well know and with Apple "ARM" CPUs things will get even worse, so what happen is that the drivers and virtualization solutions can't provide anything compatible to the OS that will render 3D graphics at a recent framerate and with Metal support.
If you don't want to run macOS and have the time / access to hardware / interest / money an hackintosh is an interesting solution. My latest attempt on that was a HP EliteDesk 800 G6 Mini that I was able to get second hand for 300€. Intel Core i5-10500T / 16 GB RAM / 256GB NVME.
That machine runs macOS very well, mostly because the CPU is supported out of the box by macOS and the iGPU was also the same of some other intel CPU included on some real mac. The trick with hackintosh is making sure your CPU and GPU are supported by the system natively otherwise it will be painful and never work properly.
Obviously not the fastest Mac out there but for web surfing in general, editing documents and some light coding it will get the job done. I got everything working including sleep/wake, filevault, iservices, dual display, 4k output and internal speakers on the first attempt without much effort and I can share the config with you or someone with this machine that comes across this post.