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Ramin Honary<a class="u-url mention" href="https://social.linux.pizza/@theDuesentrieb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@theDuesentrieb</a> I asked for the highest-spec computer the company would buy me (which turned out to be an Apple MacBook M2). I then promptly installed a QEMU-based emulator and installed Debian Linux into the emulator. The emulated disk is fully encrypted. I allow the VM full use of all CPU cores and 100% of all memory and disk space.If you do get a Apple computer, I highly recommend you buy <a href="https://mac.getutm.app/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">UTM</a> from the app store, it is by far the most cost-effective option, and works extremely well with Debian Aarch64. Once you install the <code>qemu-guest-agent</code> package onto Linux, the Linux screen resolution will automatically match the <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/macbook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacBook</a>, copy-paste works seamlessly between <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/macos" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacOS</a>. Desktop environments like <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/cinnamon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cinnamon</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/xfce" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Xfce</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/gnome" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gnome</a>, and <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/kdeplasma" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KDEPlasma</a> all allow you to select <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/hidpi" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HiDPI</a> scaling which allows Linux to take full advantage of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/apple" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> “retina” display (it looks beautiful). The one and only drawback is that <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/qemu" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QEMU</a> cannot use Apple’s hardware multimedia codecs, so it falls back to software codecs, and the CPU just can’t keep up with things like video conferencing, or often even ordinary 720p video playback. I use Mac OS for only multimedia applications and video conferencing. For everything else, I continue to use Linux.I recommend the bridge networking adapter so you can have two-way network communications between Linux and MacOS, this allows for file transfer between Mac and Linux via <code>rsync</code>. The trade-off is that every time your Apple computer switches computers networks (e.g. between home and office), you must reset the networking services in Linux. If you choose the NAT network option Linux will always have network access directly via the MacOS interface, but you will not be able to easily transfer files between Mac and Linux.The keyboard is the hardest thing to get used to, mostly that “super” and “alt” are swapped. Be sure to transpose those keys in the <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/utm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UTM</a> configuration. It is easy to configure the Apple keyboard to (for example) make caps-lock another control key.<a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/tech" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/computers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computers</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://wetdry.world/@nerm_nelly" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nerm_nelly</a> ni, and most shut doesn't scale on non-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HiDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HiDPI</a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PortraitMode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PortraitMode</a>!

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://piou.foolbazar.eu/@joel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@joel</a> I mean, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SystemD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SystemD</a> wasn't done by <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Poettering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poettering</a> because he had no hobbies - far from it.<ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SysVinit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SysVinit</a> sucks and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> needs to modernize and change solely because many components like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Xorg</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSS</a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ALSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ALSA</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenGL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenGL</a> are to be retired or are already only on life support.</li></ul>SystemD, like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wayland</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PipeWire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PipeWire</a> is a "necessary evil" because the preexisting solutions are slow, not adaptive, cumbersome or just don't work well at all (i.e. mixed (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DPI</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HiDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HiDPI</a>) screens with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/X11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#X11</a> are just broken!<ul><li>People had years if not over a decade to fix those but they didn't and it's clear that a new & clean slate was necessary...</li></ul>

Matthieu<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@thelinuxcast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@thelinuxcast</a> I'd be interested to know how you made i3wm/Xorg work with your strange <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/monitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#monitor</a> 🖥️ With <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/HiDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HiDPI</a> and various scaling changes, I can only work with <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wayland</a> and <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/wlroots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wlroots</a> or <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/plasma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plasma</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://appdot.net/@tewha" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@tewha</a> Yeah, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DPI</a> and handling mixed-DPI / size setups is something neither <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Xorg</a> nor <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wayland</a> nor <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a>'s not Xorg system do very well if not at all...<ul><li>I had this issue years back on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UbuntuLTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UbuntuLTS</a> wirh a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HiDPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HiDPI</a> (UHD @ 15,6") <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ThinkPad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThinkPad</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/P15v" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#P15v</a> and several medium-DPI 1080p Monitors...</li></ul>

Ercanbrack<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linuxtablet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linuxtablet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linuxaudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linuxaudio</a> So, I am back on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/endeavouros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endeavouros</a>, and the install went flawlessly. Everything is identified and working, and my journal log is clear of errors. I also found a simple way to turn off the undesired <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/grub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grub</a> theming. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pipewire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pipewire</a> is installed and working correctly, and I have <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Reaper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reaper</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/surge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surge</a> installed and working. Since I use <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/alsa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alsa</a> for reaper and it hosts my plugins, everything was simply plug-n-play. Both programs scale for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hidpi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hidpi</a> and I’ll soon test <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/touch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#touch</a> screen capability. 😎👍🏼

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