Germanium transistor leakage issues

[highwater]

On Linux, your best bet is an international keyboard layout with an "AltGr" key; that'll work pretty-much the same way as on a Mac.

How you'd go about doing that will depend on your distribution/desktop-environment/etc, but it's probably wherever your language settings are. I think by default AltGr will replace your right-hand Alt/Meta key, but if you have a Windows keyboard it should be pretty simple to use the menu key instead (it may or may-not involve hand-editing the keyboard layout files).

[swever]

What exactly does leakage mean in terms of actual result? E.g. how does say a fuzz face built with higher leakage transistors sound compared to one with low leakage transistors?

Also, my experiments with fuzz faces showed that high hfe does not neccessary mean "better" sound at all. Different flavour, yes, but not better/worse.
I think the higher the hfe of the second transistor, the less "fuzz" and more output level you get, at least that's what I have experienced.

[duck_arse]

no. [now_chastened] yes. [/now_chastened] only, Ȱ is U+230, μ is U+03BC.

[BetterOffShred]

I honestly thought you were joking around.   Then you said you used Unix.  I didn't mean to be an ass.   

Glad you got it figured out!

[duck_arse]

I honestly thought you were joking around.

you're not the first person on this very forum to say that.

Ω, μ.