Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@mawr If it's one of the x86 MacBooks, fairly easily on the standard build. But might be some special instructions for its peripherals.

ARM MacBooks should work too, though will require a bit more fiddling because of the whole endianness thing. Should work fine with Wine and Proton and whatnot though!

Update: got VR working, haptics working, and face tracking almost working over the weekend.

I did need to kernel patch (which just worked, the first try!!) and spent some time with docs for unsupported VR hardware (the big screen beyond and project babble have bad tracking support on Linux, both are C-sharp executables in a trenchcoat), but man, this is so much easier than the days of manually patching configurations everywhere or suffering, especially between GCC versions.

Decided to make the switch to Garuda instead of sticking it out on Windows 10 ESU or migrating to 11. This isn't my first time (I did the same to skip Vista way back), so I already have a general idea of what to expect!

That said, I've been very impressed how much things just work now. Proton existing as a de-facto Wine replacement makes so many things so much better. Wayland is much nicer than X11 ever was to me. Packages that include default installations for Steam, Discord, and Telegram are much nicer than having to manually enable proprietary packages then practically EULA away my soul on installing basics to my system.

The various flavors I've deployed to other machines here at the house (small servers and commodity boxes, roughly in Debian and Arch now in equal measure) also generally Just Work. This is so much better than writing awkward configuration files that were a scant prayer-riding-on-a-live-cd or shuffling through package dependency hell to keep my systems stable.

I have already run into limitations with the desktop setup (I need to kernel patch to get the Big Screen Beyond working, which thankfully I know how to do), but those have been few and far between.

I was prepared for pain and suffering to skip this cycle of Windows, so I'm... kinda shocked it all just works without a hitch? What the heck.

And when they're out, when this is nothing more than a bad memory, let's keep Nazis in their place. On the discarded boot of history that they so loved.

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The US admin is full of actual Nazis, who want to turn this world to shit because they cannot imagine anything other than domination and control.

And they deserve nothing more than what the last batch did, twhat the Confederacy did, what any bully in a high school deserves: a bloody nose, a visceral reminder that their behavior will never be tolerated, and threefold the pain they would inflict on others.

Anyway. This batch is a bunch of fools, and we'll see them fall. Keep your chin up.

This is why you punch Nazis. This is why you deplatform them. And I won't say anything about the dead fascist they're using as a convenient martyr -- I have no kindness nor polite words at all for them.

At the end of the day, all they understand is power. And being beaten to the mat, so they never try that harm again.

The Nazis in power deserve what the last batch of Nazis got: defeat. And their day in court for being Nazis, in which "just following orders" was not a defense.