Rosetta 2 for Linux is my favourite feature of Mac at the moment. I've been working on a project for many years that had a hard dependency on a library that only compiled on amd64 architecture. So for the longest time I was dual wielding a Mac and Framework laptop. I really hated switching between the two and moreso using Linux on my Framework; just felt like a bleh experience. When Rosetta 2 for Linux came around, I immediately started using it and was fully productive developing on our Intel only projects. I don't see any perceivable speed loss, t hough we had to adjust some sleeps for a few concurrency/threading tests to accommodate Rosetta.
Apple really did not have to make Rosetta 2 available for Linux. If they hadn't, it wouldn't even register a blip on the users / market share of Macs/MacOS. But it's just one of those hidden gems of the OS, and going by this article they haven't stopped improving on it.
Apple really did not have to make Rosetta 2 available for Linux. If they hadn't, it wouldn't even register a blip on the users / market share of Macs/MacOS. But it's just one of those hidden gems of the OS, and going by this article they haven't stopped improving on it.