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How have you automated configuring your machines in terms of packages and dotfiles so it works cross-distro? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for interesting tools to automate managing packaging and configuring everything automated.

And yeah I know about NixOS but I like to distro hop and experiment so I for now know these:

Ansible - automating many machines, using different package names as vars and package managers.
Bash - the most native and compatible scripting language that can be.
Chezmoi - for dotfiles.

For now that's it. I'm looking forward for your suggestions!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m not a Mac fan, but I do keep a Hackintosh VM with GPU passthrough to run the occasional XCode and the like or send a text message when I’m too lazy to pull out my iPhone. I will say that MacOS’s standardized interface is rather nice, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow, you went through hell with this Hacintosh. Interesting that you have an iPhone not Android when you use Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On one hand, I did go through heck at one point trying to get the config.plist right to no avail. I then found some guy’s preconfigured OpenCore image made specifically for virtual machines (I usually avoid such things, but as a VM is basically a standardized platform, I’ll take it), upon which my life has been very easy ever since. Passthrough was just a matter of copying my Windows passthrough scripts.

One day, I want to buy a Google Pixel and run LineageOS, but I’m not in the position to do that right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, do you have a steps to reproduce it?

I'm writing from [GrapheneOS] (https://grapheneos.org/) right now. I recommend it more over LineageOS as it seemed more polished and profiled. I have OnePlus 7 Pro with LineageOS MicroG though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

For the GPU passthrough, I reused what I did for Windows 10. After that, I think you have to add a few QEMU flags in the Virt Manager XML (have to find them), but after that, you just download an OpenCore ISO from https://github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Opencore and it pretty much just works (except for audio, which is something I’m working ob. I got a Pulse server running on MacOS once and forwarded it to my Linux sound server over the virtual network, but I haven’t been able to replicate that.) Every few months, they’ll update it with the latest OpenCore.