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Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice

I bought M1 MacBook Air. It is the fastest computer I have, and I have been a GNOME/GNU/Linux user for long time. It is obvious conclusion that I need practical Linux desktop environment on Apple Silicon.

Fortunately, Linux already works on Apple Silicon/M1. But how practical is it?

• Two native ports exist.

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10.3 (Panther):
https://swscan.apple.com/scanningpoints/scanningpointX.xml

10.4 (Tiger):
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/index.sucatalog
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/index-1.sucatalog

10.5 (Leopard):
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Install_USB_Maker.sh
# Copyright (c) 2020 - 2023 Dayo Akanji
# - dakanji@users.sourceforge.net
# Portions Copyright (c) Jeff Geerling
# - https://github.com/geerlingguy/macos-virtualbox-vm/blob/master/LICENSE
#
# MIT License

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# An overly complicated SIP config checker

# This is a technically interesting implementation because it does not rely on csrutil
# Instead it queries the kernel directly for the current configuration status
# This means, for example, in environments where SIP has been disabled and csrutil has
# been removed or modified (say, with DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH), as long as python can run you
# can still check status

# Additionally, checking the nvram csr-active-config setting isn't accurate now with
# 10.12.2+, since running "sudo csrutil clear" deletes the variable until reboot,

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#!/bin/sh

# Set the macOS installer path as a variable
MACOS_INSTALLER="/Applications/$(ls /Applications | grep "Install macOS")"
MOUNT_POINT="$MACOS_INSTALLER/Contents/SharedSupport"
echo "macOS installer is \"$MACOS_INSTALLER\""

# Set the target disk as a variable
TARGET=$(diskutil info "$(bless --info --getBoot)" | awk -F':' '/Volume Name/ { print $2 }' | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')
echo "Target disk is \"$TARGET\""

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How to Sync A Forked Repo

One problem I had while practicing git was syncing up a forked repository. This can come in handy for open source projects and collaborating in teams without permissions to directly push onto an original repo. I'm interested in open source, so I figured it would be a good thing to learn, and a good thing to document (because I am sure the details will skip my mind later).

1. Make sure you are in the right place

   • That was my first mistake. I was in the wrong directory so I got this error when I tried to merge.

     fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

   • That happened because I was telling git to merge one repo (my dotfiles repo) with the other (my apprenticeship repo). Here's some documentation on that error

• An easy way to check where you are is the command:

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#!/bin/bash
# joevt Jan 31, 2023

#10.4 Tiger to 10.13 High Sierra
kextload=kextload

# Later macOS versions
command -v kextutil > /dev/null && kextload=kextutil

getkextidentifier () {

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#!/bin/bash
# by joevt Jan 22, 2023

#===================
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
   echo "This script must be run as root like this:"
   echo "sudo $0"
   exit 1
fi
#===================

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#!/usr/bin/env sh

sudo apt-get update -y && \
sudo apt-get upgrade -y && \
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y && \
sudo apt-get install build-essential software-properties-common -y && \
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y && \
sudo apt-get update -y && \
sudo apt-get install gcc-9 g++-9 -y && \
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-9 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-9 && \

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Function
Convert-WindowsImage
{

  <#
    .NOTES
        Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        Use of this sample source code is subject to the terms of the Microsoft
        license agreement under which you licensed this sample source code. If