Not sure. Maybe they’re going to replace the nasty proprietary bits with tools and libraries from Linux and BSD?

Great idea, but unfortunately technicalities won’t get me marks.

Oh, I haven’t handed it in yet. We were supposed to write our own methods.

Apparently, that’s required for the App Store and Google Play. The guy behind it has said he has no intention of taking advantage.

I see… Welp, guess I’ll go back to what I was using before!

Is this good news or bad news?

I like SchildiChat the most, since it has a nice UI and supports both E2EE and calls.

I use Syncthing

However, this guy has actually switched to Linux, and is willing to adapt and learn how to use it.

That’s hilarious XD

It’s okay. I’ll probably end up switching to Arch, though.

It works, but there are a couple of issues:

• HiDPI is not supported by cwm, so I’ve had to do “duct tape” fixes on everything (changing .Xresources, changing GTK conf files, increasing the font size in polybar). Qt apps aren’t playing ball.
• The WiFi card isn’t supported by any BSD, so I’m using a dongle.
• The fan doesn’t come on as often as it does on macOS, so the MacBook can get rather hot.
• The headphone jack supports optical jacks as well as standard 3.5mm ones. Under OpenBSD, however, the LED inside is constantly on. This isn’t a problem, but it’s not normal.
• Polybar can’t seem to access any system information (e.g. disk usage), but I suspect that has nothing to do with the hardware.

I’ve already gone and installed macOS 11 alongside OpenBSD (although I’m going to distrohop until I can find something that “sticks”). I might have a look at patching Monterey, though.

As for those specific versions, High Sierra was the oldest version with decent software support, and Mavericks has those lovely skeuomorphic icons. I know it’s old, but I was using OSX Snow Leopard (alongside crunchbang++ i386) until I got this MacBook Pro.

I’ll give it a shot!

I never had much luck with ReactOS, but I’ll give it a shot.

Thanks for the help!