Roko C. Buljan rokobuljan

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

I've used this guide through 2024 despite archinstall and it's still more or less valid. After having used archinstall twice and having encountered obscure issues (luksOpen taking ages, or slow reboots in general) I switched back to a manual setup and it seems to be almost as straightforward.

Always refer to the official guide in case of doubt.

First things first

One important thing first: the environment you will encounter on the live image is very different from what you'll end up installing, some things are significantly easier there: e.g. wifi tools come

Git

Global Settings

Related Setup: https://gist.github.com/hofmannsven/6814278
Related Pro Tips: https://ochronus.com/git-tips-from-the-trenches/
Interactive Beginners Tutorial: http://try.github.io/
Git Cheatsheet by GitHub: https://services.github.com/on-demand/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet/

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	#!/bin/bash

	# Intel VA-API Installer with Auto Driver Detection and Environment Config

	set -e

	# Colors
	RED='\033[0;31m'
	GRN='\033[0;32m'
	YLW='\033[1;33m'

	import fs from "fs-extra";

	/**
	* Concurrently (simultaneously) update JSON files via queue
	* @example
	* ```js
	* import { QSON } from "./qson.js";
	* const qconf = new QSON("./config.json");
	*
	* // Clear current file's data

	<?php

	$secret = 'secret key';
	list($hashAlgo, $signature) = explode('=', $_SERVER['HTTP_X_HUB_SIGNATURE']);
	$payload = $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA ?: file_get_contents('php://input');

	$compute = hash_hmac($hashAlgo, $payload, $secret);
	$valid = hash_equals($compute, $signature);

	if ($valid === false) {