If a program insists on Windows, it is instantly deemed incompatible with my operating parameters and fails my system requirements…
Sometimes…
If a program insists on Windows, it is instantly deemed incompatible with my operating parameters and fails my system requirements…
I have added “Piss on carpet” to my email signature…
We need to make this a thing !!
When I switched from Windows to Linux back in 2002, I never looked back. I missed absolutely nothing. Linux offered everything I needed and more, with unmatched freedom and flexibility. In late 2008, I bought a unibody MacBook, and while macOS wasn’t bad per se, it just didn’t feel like home. I missed Linux too much, so I wiped the MacBook and installed Debian. From that moment on, I’ve never switched again—Linux has always been home. I’m currently rocking Arch (btw) on my main desktop & Debian on my laptop…
While I appreciate the utility of snaps and flatpaks for providing sandboxed, cross-platform apps, I’ve often found them slower than traditional packages. Their tendency to take up more disk space also feels inefficient, especially when system resources are sometimes precious. For these reasons, I generally prefer using apps installed directly through the system’s default package manager, which tend to offer better performance and use space more efficiently…
Forgot to mention that mpv
is how I actually watch the videos. Newsboat downloads a list from each channel kinda like an RSS feed. I can then select any video & download it by pressing a keybinding. It’s been a while since I last had to actually set this up, but off memory, here’s some quick info…
The file ~/.newsboat/urls
contains URLs similar to the one below. Just replace CHANNEL_ID
with the actual channel ID. You can find the channel ID in the URL of the channel’s page…
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
With the URLs in place you can edit your newsboat config file to set up a key binding for downloading videos using yt-dlp
. It should be as simple as adding something like the following to the config…
macro d set browser “yt-dlp %u”; open-in-browser ; set browser “xdg-open %u”
This binds the d
key to use yt-dlp
to download videos.
I love YouTube, but the site often annoys me in many ways. On my computer I use newsboat
along with yt-dlp
to download all the videos I want to watch offline. This way, I can watch content without dealing with any of the site’s frustrations…
While I’d personally never install or use this, it good to know its there for the extremely small percentage of people who’ll want or need it…
I never said anything about “tiptoeing around”, but what you said here is correct…
Any distro will “just work” if used correctly…
One other possibility is that it’s an impossible request so the genie’s refunded the wish. I actually read your initial comment wrong though…
There is multiple ways to interpret the joke. One possible way is that the genie likes the wish so much that he gives him the wish for free…
I honestly don’t care about dethroning windows or anything related to it. All that matters to me is that my Linux system works the way I need it to…
Sorry, but I have no information on the original source of the image…
xfce4-terminal has always been my go-to terminal. It may not be the lightest or the best, but it does have some neat built-in features like opening a drop-down window…
M$ loves locking users into their totally bulls*it ecosystem with deliberately broken “standards.” LibreOffice, on the other hand, actually respects open formats like ODF and doesn’t treat interoperability as a threat. Word still can’t properly open documents it didn’t create, unless you pay the vendor tax and pray the formatting survives…