I’m late to the game, having tried debian for the first time a few weeks ago.

I’m running the aarch64 version (KDE) in a virtual machine on my Mac (M2) and it’s the only distro that, out of the box, hardware acceleration is working for video decode of web videos.

All other distro I’ve tried struggle to display YouTube videos.

Big thumbs up from me.

Which VM software are you using?

VMware fusion tech preview for Apple silicon

Ooh. What’s it like, compared to Parallels?