If you can recall this long story, I would love to hear it.
On another note, Pinta is a clone of Paint.net that you can get via Flatpak.
I do have OS 9.2 on qemu.
Also, I do use another Grassmunk theme on a few of my machine, Chichago95.
To be fair, libreboot support is very rare regardless.
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.
I have similar feelings about Mac, probably in part because of my former Windows use as well. On one hand, I like how Mac’s terminal and development workflow (e.g availability of gcc) are more natively Unix-like, but for that, there’s also limited OpenGL support and no Vulkan support. Meanwhile, making Windows more “Unix-y” is as simple as installed Cygwin, and fixing the menu is simple a matter of installing OpenShell. (Of course, having to contort Windows gets annoying after a while, thus why I use Linux these days.)
Woah. An interesting setup indeed.
KDE almost became my default when I was installing probably my first bare-metal Linux distro a few years back - Debian Buster, to be precise - on an old laptop. However, something borked with the network manager installation, so when I tried again, I chose XFCE, which worked (probably by coincidence - I probably just did something dumb the first time) and has been my go-to ever since.
From a programming perspective, I definitely like Qt a lot over GTK, though it’s not like I write GUI applications all the time anyhow.
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Quite honestly, I almost chose NixOS over Debian a few years for that reason, but I prefer the community support of Debian. Of course, that could change, but right now, I’m not in a big distro-hopping mood nor am I sufficiently unhappy with Debian. On a side note, it kind of bothered me that you couldn’t use Nix to configure e.g the layout of your XFCE desktop. If I ever transition, maybe I’ll put in some time one summer to make that all work.
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.
I’ve become a Flatpak fan for a similar reason.
Completely different, but reminds me of when I created a custom Buildroot for a Pentium II laptop so I had USB support to use dd to take a raw disk image of the harddrive. I did something dumb that stopped the backup midway through, though, and now that laptop is in pieces spread across my bedroom (not from smashing, but trying to find and replace the CMOS battery, which turned out to be proprietary).