How much security do I need? I'm going to crosscompile software (hopefully) to avoid slow Broadcom and then delete the OS.
So I think the persistence option is broken.
debian
GRUB actually says "Debian GNU/Linux".
The ISO says i386 but the kernel at least is apparently amd64.
64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace or what? Confusing...
Userspace IS 32-bit. Haha wow.
This is running on x64 and a PCIe SSD, how is it so much slower than an actual Raspberry Pi.
@onfy do you have virtualization features on on your CPU?
@noiob I should hope so, it's a Ryzen 3100.
@onfy no, I mean, did you switch them on in your UEFI config
@noiob I think I did. If on my actual PC I'd have to reboot to check? Or is there a way to from the terminal.
@onfy uh in Windows it's in the task manager
@noiob ...I'll just google it I guess.
@onfy lscpu
@noiob Virtualization features:
Virtualization: AMD-V
@onfy looks like it's on, hm
@noiob You know what?
I think it was actually disabled by default in VMWare. Nice.
@onfy haha
I guess they're erring on the side of better compatibility
@noiob Considering how much of their customer base is corporate, that makes complete sense. Don't wanna blow up something important.
@onfy funny story btw, I recently had to get amd64 linux software on arm macOS and the only way I could get it to work was in a qemu VM and it still felt fast because apple's chips are that overspecced
@noiob Wow... imagine that as an option.
Imagine once you can run arm64 Linux fully on those things... in my experience box64 is a good deal faster.
@onfy you can already run arm64 Linux on those things, and Apple has released Rosetta 2, which should make x64 software run great on Linux :) sadly I couldn't take advantage of any of this
@noiob Dang, why not?
I think the Linux isn't complete still? iirc the GPU driver hasn't been finished yet, at least.
@onfy I needed to run a very specific setup that automatically pulls up a bunch of docker containers for development. It's specific enough to not work with Docker desktop (the Mac native version which I would've strongly preferred)
you don't need a GPU driver, it's fast enough for software rendering ;)
@noiob Can't wait to play Tomb Raider with software OpenGL...
@onfy which Tomb Raider?
@noiob But basically I mean modern, fairly intensive games.
@onfy I mean yeah you would probably wanna stay in macOS for those and just run wine/proton/something? in Rosetta 2. It works for FFXIV, apparently?
@noiob I was mostly thinking stuff with Vulkan/Proton, I don't think that works in macOS? Or maybe it does now.
Though, I still feel more comfortable in a Linux environment.
@onfy I'm not sure. There is MoltenVk which lets Vulkan stuff run on macOS https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
@noiob Well, an M1 Mac Mini probably won't be affordable to me until it's really old and none of this matters anyway, so I'm not too concerned.
@noiob Yeah, definitely not the best example I could've chosen.