Are there any VM apps other than Parallels that can run x86_64 and ARM64 operating systems as well as Parallels?

I'm not looking to pay their yearly subscription fee just to keep a decently running Linux distro or Windows 11 VM going. I know that they have the "best" performance but I'm looking at VMware which I believe is free now, but looking for alternatives. Mostly seems that because my MBP is ARM64 that these VM tools will mainly only run ARM64 code.

Any recs?

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Pasly - Your clipboard, synced across Mac, iPhone and iPad

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[OS] Optimize manga on eink for Kindle, Kobo, KOReader, ReMarkable, and more with KCC
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ExtraDock - A better dock for Mac - Update on widgets & Liquid Glass - 40% off promotion for r/macapps

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[OS] NoSiri - hide the "Ask Siri" item from macOS context menus with one click (Free)

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My review of Ben Dansby's ShowRunner

Talking about https://bendansby.com/apps/showrunner.html by u/FlowIll9219

tl;dr: Success, you can see the result on my product page, first slide is a video that I recorded using ShowRunner: https://mojavepaint.app/ You can see those slides have a toggle switch between light and dark mode. I was able to record my mouse movements, toggle the theme to dark mode, and re-record the video with the same exact inputs. You can really see it when I'm painting on adjustment layer in the coffee foam, I have some overpainting that I have to correct, and both videos have the same precise thing.

Edit: I forgot to do a Cloudfront invalidation, just did that now, so you might not see the new video for a few minutes.

In order to get here I filed two feature requests along the way that the developer fixed very quickly.

1. He added a "Subtle" corner radius that matches the corners in Golden Gate pretty well and
2. Drag operations have an option for "Motion: As drawn" which is critical for any kind of painting app, you can't just go straight from A to B as a line segment.

I have a couple more easy feature requests though:

1. After you edit a duration, the focus remains in the text box with no way to leave, not even with escape, so then the Space bar fails to work for play/stop (and up/down arrow fail to advance the current step)
2. It would be nice to hook up Home and End keys for those of us with an extended 104-key keyboard (edit: I see home/end scroll the step list. I kind of expected it to move the playhead, but I don't feel that strongly either way)

And now some criticism:

In a content editing app, the content is the star and one should never, ever cover it over with UI, in my strongly-held opinion at least. So like in this screenshot, the step overlay toggle, the re-record toast, the monitor indicator, the Add Frame button and the Zoom button, that stuff should all be off the video and in the UI of the app itself. I can't access some of the steps the way it is. There's plenty of room in the surrounding parts of the app to put these things. Lots of consumer apps do this I know, but pro apps generally wouldn't.

https://preview.redd.it/0rj8p3yqacsh1.png?width=1099&format=png&auto=webp&s=f046a86019ae64737fbe81957b2c2edc695b90b8

And then just some questions: If I select step 16 here it soft highlights 17 and 18 also, why is that?

https://preview.redd.it/m0fp3ua7dcsh1.png?width=363&format=png&auto=webp&s=f047b3ede8f13c4bcc7d283ce46709fbf1c35403

Also I notice that when you select a step in the list, it moves the playhead, but if you select a step in the timeline, it moves the playhead without selecting the step. It seems like it should select the step. Of course, for the timelime to be a generally useful way to navigate the steps you'd need to show them all even when they're stacked in time.

I could imagine a UI where duration-having steps get a block with width, and each step illustrates its "pause after" with a right arrow. And perhaps with steps that overlap in time shown stacked vertically, or something.

Oh one more feature request... after exporting I do bring into FCP just to trim the ends a little. A simple start and end trim slider would be pretty handy.

Overall this app works great. I was able to change the duration on an "As drawn" drag operation and it scaled the speed as expected. And in the video you'll notice I changed the menu picker drag to be "Straight line" because that's just selecting a value, the intermediate path doesn't matter.

Looking forward to future updates. I never even used any of the advanced features like Zoom, but I'll be making more videos soon so I'm sure I'll get to play some more.

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[OS] InputConfig: a free, open-source app that turns any game controller into a keyboard and mouse for your Mac (Free)

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Any free Mac app that auto-notifies you when a Terminal task finishes?

Is there a free app or some kind of background tool that will automatically ping me every time a long command finishes running in the default macOS Terminal?


Thanks

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