Maiq

It has been a long time since my transition. I remember the journey well. I used to watch nixie does linux and a specific queries for different problems I had in both youtube and google to get what I needed.

I did a search on YT and came up with this video that was derived from the linux foundation. Only watched a few minutes bit might be a good place to start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWbUDq4S6Y8

Welcome to linux! Lemmy is very accepting and helpful for your questions as well.

A small act of rebellion can be revolutionary to the lives it changes.

Kde is working really well on linux-surface. Had to change the OSK to maliit(?) but everything I need works. I haven’t tried to install the camera driver because I never needed it. Stylus works really well ootb. Use it with Krita. Screen rotation works great and I use it as an e-reader. I choose an easy arch distro because disk encryption works with the native keyboard although it has been some time since i tried a non rolling distro and other distros could have addressed the startup keyboard issues by now. 10/10 would recommend.

There are no stupid questions.

Linux has been able to read any drive I have ever tried. NTFS is readable and writeable. I would bet almost all distros support ntfs. if they dont you can install ntfs-3g.

Edit: i dont usually use ntfs so I went and had a quick search, to make sure I wasnt wrong and remembering the right driver name. I also didnt think about drive health checks that they lightly cover in the link.

https://linuxvox.com/blog/does-linux-support-ntfs/

Ruh roh Raggy!

VPN’s are like a condom for the internet. With much of the internet trying to fuck you putting on a wrapper is probably a good idea.

Eventually you get used to the slower speeds, rarely have issues with connection and if I do I just change IP. If a website doesn’t allow a vpn I really don’t need to go there and for the sites that I do want to visit there are optional different front ends I use.

A vpn and a good add blocker is pretty much a necessity for me at this point.

You are correct about me using a vpn to change my IP… I probably should been more descriptive.

Side note, thanks for helping OP in my absence.

A lot of this has to do with youtube blocking IP addresses. When it happens to me I change IP and it works again.

How have you installed the yt-dlp app? Through apt or with pip? You can probably get faster updates if you use pip.

Me, I know who I am! I’m the Khajiit playing a Khajiit disguised as another Khajiit.

You’re right. I just read the article not the release notes so I assumed they were shoving this in a software I really enjoy. Thought Id have to find a replacment.

Fair use of tech i don’t have a use for, i didn’t think of.

Why the fuck would i want that?

Can you use ublock? built in. Im going to give it a go.