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A bit more regarding UTM SE on the iPad

I spent a few hours trying out UTM SE on my M1 iPad Pro, and quickly came to the conclusion that it is not really usable to do local develop...

However, given my recent rant on how I miss better ways to do small computing, I had to push the envelope a bit and try to figure out exactly how usable it might be in a pinch, so I plugged my iPad into my LG UltraFine and tried out some stuff so that you don’t have to–and I’m throwing in a few comparisons to a-Shell and iSH as well. Running sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target to disable the GUI and restricting the core count to 2 on the prebuild Debian XFCE image makes it reasonably usable, and highlights a couple of nice advantages: That said, even if it is still slow for an emulator (and will also impact your battery life), it is quite usable for running a lot of things, especially if they’re already available in Alpine–and it can access the iOS filesystem, too, making it a great complement for a-Shell.

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