GPU passthrough has always been one of those exciting ideas I’d love to dive into one day. My current GPU being a little older, has only 4GB of RAM. Oh the joy's of being a budget PC user. Thankfully it's more of a "would be nice rather" than an "actually need"....
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....
The day I can no longer download videos from YouTube will be the day I take a step back from it altogether....
I really want to love Elementary OS, however, its foundation on Ubuntu has me hesitating, as I'm not the biggest fan of Ubuntu lately. If it were built on something like Debian or Fedora, I’d definitely be more inclined to give it a serious try....
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....
It ain't the same, and probably never will be....
I never said anything about "tiptoeing around", but what you said here is correct....
Any distro will "just work" if used correctly....
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....
Computer is connected to the router via ethernet. The connection to the router is I believe fiber optics....
When your day is going too well and you don't trust it and some shit finally goes down ....
.... Ah, there it is, the fuckening !!
My motherboard is a stock dell from around 2012 so I doubt performance would be at all good. Thats even if it worked in the first place....