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Although I have no interest in running Linux on an ARM iMac today, I'll likely be interested in running Linux on an ARM iMac in 5 or 6 years when the OS deprecates the hardware support. Currently running Ubuntu on several iMacs as 'extra' computers.

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The keynote showed them running Linux under Parallels, although that was a version of Linux compiled natively for ARM (which would seem to be preferable to running it with Intel emulation, speedwise).

VMWare has also strongly hinted that their stuff will work on ARM-based Macs.

"Not supported by Apple" doesn't necessarily mean "can't be done".

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