UTM supports Rosetta in Linux VMs: https://docs.getutm.app/advanced/rosetta/

OS still needs to be ARM, as far as I know, but you can then use Rosetta to speed-up x86_64 Linux binaries.

Docker Desktop also uses this to run x86_64 Docker images, and in many cases performance is quite close to the native ARM binaries, but this heavily depends on the workload.

Linux has always been a bit of an easier deal because you can (often, not always) just get a version for ARM that is "close enough".

qemu works as well as it always did—which is to say slow as hell but good enough for automation in a pinch