Ubuntu on an M2 MacBook Air

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Ubuntu on an M2 MacBook Air

I installed Parallels 18 Desktop on my new 15 inch MacBook Air, and I was wondering if anyone has installed Ubuntu on their M2 Mac, and how does that work with Apple silicon?

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Posted on Sep 4, 2023 01:34 PM

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Answer 1

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Servant of Cats

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Sep 4, 2023 06:14 PM in response to iPhoneography

If you are planning to run Linux within a Parallels virtual machine on a M2 MacBook Air, you will need to install an ARM distribution.

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Sep 5, 2023 01:26 PM in response to iPhoneography

Operating system and application binaries are built to run on machines with a specific type of machine code; a specific architecture.

Apple-Silicon-based Macs have a different type of machine code than most PCs that run Windows or Linux. Their machine code is based on that of ARM CPUs. Therefore the regular Intel versions of Windows, Ubuntu, etc. will not run on them. You need an operating system built to run on Apple Silicon, or at the very least, in a virtual machine environment, one built to run on ARM.

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Sep 5, 2023 12:59 PM in response to Servant of Cats

Thanks, I'm new to this... what is arm distribution?

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Ubuntu on an M2 MacBook Air

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