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Several bugs fixed! (And one drawback taken)

First off, with the fixes:

  • Installer UI no longer crashes when selecting a swap option or entering encryption details (the issue was only persistent on legacy BIOS boot and without a certain configuration file (bootloader.conf, that got added))
  • Encryption finally works! Can’t show in the devlog image, but a disk can be encrypted and decrypted with LUKS properly
  • A non-encrypted approach of installation is also viable and works as it should

Drawback (the sad part):

  • Since I couldn’t get legacy BIOS to not crash the installer in a mentioned case, after strong considerations I have decided that Matcha Linux will only officially support EFI, and enforced this behaviour in the build pipeline
  • This gets along the philosophy of using modern lightweight standards that Matcha tries to utilize, so it’s not much of a loss

What remains broken:

  • Swap memory does not seem to be working in the installed system, even when the necessary files ARE created by the installer
  • Timezones don’t still work properly

After fixing said issues the project will be ready to ship. Hopefully it shouldn’t take more than a week

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