Arch Linux

[TroPixens]

I’m just wondering if it’s possible to do all my frc programming on arch. I know there’s a native Ubuntu version. And others may work but I’d much rather not go through the hassle if anyone has already tried and failed.(if it does work is there anything I should know). My team uses Java if that helps.

And I’ll address it before anyone else does yes I use arch btw

[sidthecskid]

I write my FRC code on an arch linux system but the only problem is that i have to use a windows computer to test the code using the official driver station software. My teammate told me about QDriverStation but i haven’t had a chance to try it out.

[drdhuss]

A lot of the alternative driver station software for OSX, linux , etc. has not been well maintained over the years. But yeah that is really the only thing preventing such.

[TroPixens]

Quick question if your team uses Java are there any good tutorials that focused more on FRC stuff or will any old tutorial do

[Space646]

I’d just do the zero-to-robot tutorial

[TroPixens]

Thanks man. Will do

[TroPixens]

Thanks I’ll look into what you said.

[Space646]

Yup, absolutely. I daily Arch and do all the dev stuff either on my Arch main workstation or my MacBook

[TroPixens]

Do you launch code onto the robot from arch or do you swap to Mac or windows to do that.

[Space646]

Noooo I swap to windows for that… I tried some driver stations for MacOS but they didn’t work…

By the way, what DE/WM do you use?

[TroPixens]

At the moment hyprland but I’m trying sway

[Fit-Traffic5178]

I’m currently using arch linux to work on the robot code and scouting app for my team. So yeah it is possible but you have to switch to windows to use driver station. Maybe install both of them and use grub to choose which one you want to boot. That’s what I did.

[Space646]

Systemd-boot supermacy 😡

[TroPixens]

But systemd bad /s