#arm64

We received a report that the Windows build of Tux Paint would not run on a Microsoft Surface, and team member Shin-ichi rebuilt the installer EXE version of Tux Paint 0.9.35 with x64 and ARM64 compatibility, so now it does! :)

Download from the usual place: https://tuxpaint.org/download/windows

> look inside

> 200 different instructions just for multiplication

ZippOS is an alternate operating system for stand alone “spacial computing” devices. The goal of this project is to provide end users, who at their own discression, void their warranties to replace pre-packaged software bundled with their hardware. As the lead developer of ZippOS, and as an end user of a “spacial computer”, I am displeased with the current operating software, and the decisions of parent companies that distribute these products are inheriently unstable, brown-nosing share holders and consumers, and completely unaligned with the end users. As these devices are marketed as computers, I want to provide software for said computers as a choice for the end-users who feel the same as I do.

You can read it here, and it’s about trying out asahi linux, the new(ish) distribution of linux for arm macs. tldr; it works really well, honestly better than linux ever worked for me on intel macs, and imo anyone who has an arm mac should try it out.

this post is gonna be the first of 3 about trying out different systems - around this same time, i also made a small tool for cargo, rust’s package manager/build system, to help migrate configs between machines, and i also tried out nix. building the cargo tool wasn’t too bad, though there were some things about it that irked me, and nix was, to put it kindly, an experience i never want to go through again.