Operating System Detector

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Shows printing of `OS_detector.get_OS` string for Windows and Linux

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For Luanti 5.0 and above

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VERY simple detection for the running device's operating system. Does NOT detect the operating systems of connected clients on a server - as the mod isn't able to access their machines.

Detects operating system via the mod path string (core.get_modpath), but isn't fully reliable. As certain folk can modify how their parent directories work and activate the needed switches in my mod to misidentify. Additionaly, this mod is unable to tell the difference between Linux distros, as well as Linux vs OpenBSD.

Windows, Android, and Linux detection has been tested. However MacOS, iOS, and iPad haven't been tested, nor has the detection for MultiCraft been tested.

This mod should be utilized in singleplayer settings - where a setting should be activated if the player is on a mobile device (Android, iOS, iPad)

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frogTheSecond 2025-08-14 11:29 UTC
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also consider `jit.os`

jit.os - Works only on luajit, but that is what 99.9% of luanti users have (i wish luanti didn't support lua5.1)

This is a cool way to detect what operating system the server has too, just not as simple as checking jit.os

as for the API i am kinda confused why you use functions to get stuff, i think i would do:
-- info from the source code of this mod os_detector = { os = info.OS, is_multicraft = info.MultiCraft or false, -- maybe use core.get_version() instead if avaliable, or just don't support versions that don't have that is_mobile = info.mobile }
instead of what you did in https://codeberg.org/TPH/operating_system_detector/src/branch/master/init.lua#L74

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1.1

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Luanti 5.0+

2025-08-16 13:49 UTC

Adds commands, utilizes LuaJIT if available 🔗

Adds 2 new functions os_detector.get_architecture - returns "Unknown" if LuaJIT is not detected os_detector.is_mobile - returns true or false depending on if the Operating System's name is detected as being that of a mobile device

Renames global to os_detector, keeping OS_detector for backwards compatibility

Provides several new commands prefixed with /osd command

/osd os - prints operating system's name /osd is_mobile/mobile - tells you whether or not your device is detected as being mobile, mentions operating system name as well /osd architecture/arch - prints the operating system's detected architecture (if LuaJIT is enabled, returns "Unknown" otherwise)

IF SINGLEPLAYER: /osd modpath - prints the modpath for the mod

1.0

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Luanti 5.0+

2025-08-09 01:07 UTC