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mintsuki

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    Comment #45461087

    A new snapshot of the Gloire distro using the Ironclad OS/kernel written in Ada ( https://ironclad-os.org/ ) is out, featuring work on porting the MATE DE and fastfetch, amongst ot…

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    Comment #44118448

    Because they do know about them. At least some of them do, of course. Ideally, BIOS/CSM systems should not care about what type of partition table format a disk uses, and just boot…

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    Comment #44112992

    I know every word of what I said in the message you're replying to. While what you said is mostly accurate, as in MBR != BIOS and GPT != UEFI, never in my original message have I s…

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    Comment #44104766

    Indeed! Which is why the only portable solution is to not do this. For stuff that needs to be bootable by both BIOS and UEFI the only portable solution is to use MBR, not GPT. That…

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    Comment #44104148

    That is a very niche use case, and also won't really work on most real BIOS machines as they actually check for a proper MBR and/or BPB (and no GPT), which is also why GPT on BIOS …

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    Comment #44103098

    By spec, UEFI is required to support both MBR and GPT, so there is literally nothing stopping you from using MBR.

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    Comment #27440940

    I don't know much about nim but I have seen my fair share of Rust and Zig code. Out of these 2, I'd personally pick Zig if I had to choose. Rust's syntax doesn't resonate with me v…

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    Comment #27440724

    No problem!

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    Comment #27440719

    I basically said that V lends itself better to this kind of development; and the modular, headerless structure gets less messy than C codebases. I also said that while I was skepti…

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    Comment #27440046

    Hello, I am the maintainer of Vinix and main contributor. Feel free to ask me anything about the project!