I actually do this for development and it works really well.

Ubuntu Linux VM in VMware Fusion on a Macbook Pro with MacOS.

Power consumption was found to be better than running Linux natively. (I'm guessing something about switching between the two GPUs, but who knows.)

GPU acceleration works fine; the Linux desktop animations, window fading and movement animations etc are just as I'd expect.

Performance seems to be fine generally, and I do care about performance.

(But I don't measure graphics performance, perhaps that's not as good as native. And when doing I/O intensive work, that's on servers.)

Being able to do a four-finger swipe on the trackpad to switch between MacOS desktops and Linux desktops (full screen) is really nice. It feels as if the two OSes are running side by side, rather than one inside another.

I've been doing Linux-in-a-VM for about 6 years, and wouldn't switch back to native on my laptop if I had a choice. The side-by-side illusion is too good.

Before that I ran various Linux desktops (or Linux consoles :-) for about 20 years natively on all my development machines and all my personal laptops, so it's not like don't know what that's like. In general, I notice more graphics driver bugs in the native version...

(The one thing that stands out as buggy is VMware's host-to-guest file sharing is extremely buggy, to the point of corrupting files, even crashing Git. MacOS's own SMB client is also atrocious in numerous ways, to the point of even deleting random files, but does it less often so you don't notice until later what's gone. I've had to work hard to find good workarounds to have reliable files! I mention this as a warning to anyone thinking of trying the same setup.)