Anything with over 100WH batteries would need airline approval before you can fly with it. This is why laptop makers rarely exceed this limit.

https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/portable-electronic-devices-with-batteries

My impression is that on M(n) silicon Parallels is the most polished virtualization experience on Mac you can get now. Virtualbox lives under the shadow of Oracle which is not a place you want to be.

redhat is just sitting right there… waiting,

This very partial list is based on my being in cyber security for 20 years and working a variety of incidents involving these apps. You all can do whatever you want with your computers.

So just to illustrate, I went to the normal FileZilla download page and downloaded the Win64 package. Then I submitted it to VirusTotal.

https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=win64#close

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dbde8a4bd71bb1fbc0511cdb657dfeffdaedc513aa425f856043532a7cba6fce

Kaspersky is just one piece of software to avoid. Others include:

• Telegram
• Avast AV
• Anything from 360 Safe / Qihoo 360
• Opera browser … now owned by above
• Zoom
• FileZilla / UTorrent / other PUA that bundles adware and acts essentially as a trojan

ARM is limited by licensing greed. RISC-V or its successors is the future.