Great news, I have been waiting quite some time for this! I am using VMware Fusion a lot on my Intel based Macs (most of my day-to-day work is on Linux in a VM) and just have been waiting for VMWare on ARM Macs.
While I also have used Parallels, I just find VMware the solution which works best with me. One of the features of course was to be able to run modern Linux kernels without the needs of installing custom drivers as the necessary drivers where part of the Linux kernel. Parallels requires drivers which often where quite a bit behind the Fedora releases.
Yes, I want to be in a full blown Linux. With the complete software a Linux distribution brings (for me mostly Fedora) and of course the full GUI support.
While I also have used Parallels, I just find VMware the solution which works best with me. One of the features of course was to be able to run modern Linux kernels without the needs of installing custom drivers as the necessary drivers where part of the Linux kernel. Parallels requires drivers which often where quite a bit behind the Fedora releases.