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I installed nightlies on both Bionic and Focal - ignition crashed in both cases after a few seconds. Both were run on using Parallels on a Mac OS Big Sur laptop - am I correct in assuming that this in a non-starter because of graphics card problems or whatnot? Do I need a non-virtual Ubuntu environment? Is this useful to investigate, or are my current environments non-starters?