Macbook M1 / OS X support?

[voidfire]

Macbook M1 / OS X support?

[sabrehagen]

I am thinking of maybe trying to ditch the tty dependency and use vnc

The environment already supports vnc access. There is a demonstration of it running on github's actions infrastructure and you can connect remotely. Follow the instructions in the README.md.

Since you last commented, the environment is now running successfully on mac m1 using UTM for virtualization. Create an Apple Virtualization VM running ubuntu, clone the desktop environment repository in the VM, check out the arm64 branch, then run ./docker/scripts/recycle.sh and you will have a working environment.

[sabrehagen]

Hi! Thanks for trying this out on M1 architecture. You're getting the error "The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested" because M1 CPUs are arm architecture.

I worked on a branch to get this running on M1 here: https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment/compare/arm64

I removed any programs that use pre-compiled .deb packages as they are pre-built for non-arm architectures. The rest are built from source so they compile for arm.

This environment starts up on a different tty (tty3), which is not supported by OS X, so the environment was run in a parallels vm. This worked successfully.

Happy to help you with any further issues you may have!

[voidfire]

You are amazing man, Thank you!
I figured it is because of the arm architecture but time constraint didn't let me fiddle with it enough,
I appreciate your help, I will certainly try it on a vm and

oh god I'd love to have a linux host so I can change tty's and be on that environment but unfortunately, I don't keep *nix setup around anymore

I am thinking of maybe trying to ditch the tty dependency and use vnc or xrdp with sessions, idk I so want a lightweight reproducable docker based environment with *nix + i3 (and configurations on it) as my safe/personal haven when I am on a cloud or work machine no matter the OS