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FOSS options for low storage Apple sillicon?

I'm a music producer, so I'm stuck with Macos because of Logic Pro, which is used by my coworkers. There's no chance they change it for a FOSS option. I know Asahi linux is out there but my M1 computer only has like 250Gb (which isnt a problem for me because I store all my logic projects an external hard drive , but I guess if Asahi an option for me. I also tried running Fedora virtualized on UTM, which runs not bad. Do you guys think that its safe to use UTM Fedora as my daily driver, and for important things like university work and my dissertstion? Or is it worth trying dual boot Asahi even if I only have 250Gb storage?

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  • As someone involved with UTM and QEMU… use UTM 4.0.x or even earlier if you want stability; QEMU 8 seems to have some issues, and UTM inherited them with the update. Osy reverted to QEMU 7 to try and fix this, but that only solved some of the issues.

    If it’s for work and they’ll pay for it, it might be worth using Parallels until UTM is stable, or keep regular backups of your images so you can revert if UTM/QEMU hoses your current image.

    It’s worth noting that UTM can use sparse qcow2 images, but can also use compression on them which can help free up space.

    UTM can also run images from an external drive now, so you could get one of those tiny 512GB thumb drives and run everything from there.