Even then it happens, since I have them installed in separate SSDs. It’s an easy fix though, at least. But I’ve been lazy and just load the other distro with the boot loader lol

This is also sort of true if you have 2 Linux distros (like debian and fedora) when it comes to grub every now and then.

Just look at some of the comments.

A lot are still “the OS is great you’re the issue” (nvm that clean installs sometimes have these issues) or “git gud scrub” or “just post some error logs” even though that gets a reply maybe half the time (which gets again into expecting something the average person wouldn’t know how to do btw, which is a problem if you want better adoption) or “but Windoze does has problems111!”.

The reality is that Linux still can’t be stably used for a lot of standard things: new(and newish) hardware, printing, lack of good UI design in many programs, and to a degree gaming (it’s been massively improved there though thanks to Proton).

Yeah, Windows has problems. But those arise more typically for advanced users (and that’s including Windows 11 being more and more broken over time).

If you just want to browse the internet and use some office apps, with no dual booting, it’ll just work. That’s the reality of it, and it makes sense considering it’s supported by a multi billion dollar company.

I know Linux for desktop has come a long way (I remember the Slackware days). But until the more boring stuff gets worked out, it’ll still be hard for it to be used more commonly, and thus harder for it to get more funding and usage as well. That’s why I think Linux is stuck in the 4% rut - sure it looks pretty now, but there’s still a lot of under the hood tinkering required to just do basic things on standard hardware.

Despite the venting it’s still a great thing it exists and I love Linux. But I think that’s what makes me wish it could work better in some cases.

Idk, maybe it’s just Debian based distros these days and I’m behind in the curve. Fedora based ones like Bazzite haven’t given me issues so far at least.

I’ll figure it out eventually.

Just wanted to vent, but it’s also frustrating because I really do wish Linux could be more widely adopted. But the tech heads here show why it won’t be any time soon, even with Microsoft making a nightmare OS in terms of privacy.

Well at least someone here got the point

BG3 runs fine for me on Nvidia 3090 using BazziteOS.

Did you use different distros that were actually from different code bases, or was it just 6 flavors of Debian? BazziteOS is based off Fedora. I’ve had issues only with Debian based distros (which technically includes Ubuntu btw)

Tryp BazziteOS next instead of Pop. It’s a Linux OS that’s designed for gaming and comes with all drivers, emulators, proton, etc out of the box. Also based on Fedora, which in my experience does better in the gaming department.

Kodi / Libreelec are in the same vein as Android TV. There extremely neutered operating systems that can basically only do that one thing, so if they failed at it, well…

You can really edit documents, run YouTube with a decent UI, possibly use sponsor block, can’t do video game streaming.

Actually, I take it back, Kodi etc are more limited than Android TV on the Pi, since at least that supports Steam Link and Moonlight streaming.

So yeah, like Android, it can play the video. But it can do anything else like if I were to run any actual distro.

I didn’t know VLC worked with IPTV. I’m guessing through plug in?

VLC was giving me issues too when playing video as well though, but only on some distros

That’s extremely useful to know about yt-dlp.

I’ve only ever used it to download videos permanently fire offline viewing when traveling. I never knew it could work as a temp cache as well.

I’ll probably make a comment linking comments here with good solutions soon.

Ask that’s left is to figure out a decent IPTV program. Really liked Hypnotix but it seems it’s just too much for the Pi

Moonlight is for game streaming. Basically if you want to run anything newer than an N64 on a Pi, you can stream it with moonlight from a more powerful computer. It’s easy on local network, but can take a little bit more know how to set up for remote play (looked like if you want to play something on your phone away from home for example).

Very useful, I’ll try this too.

Question though - I thought yt-dlp downloaded videos?

And can sponsor block be integrated into this in any way?

Will try too

Ah yes, the programmer curve.

That I noticed that Raspberry Pi OS had as well built in.

Does Falkon need it since it’s Chromium based? How well will Falkon fare against ads with Manifest V3?

Anything can at least once

So something like a Banana Pi wouldn’t have this issue?