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Or a black marker, a couple of times.

Did you talk to anyone else about how to solve it?

Consult any forums etc.

Linux is community based.

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Also, ‘Bye Felicia!’

/s jk, come back any time :]

OK, then run Linux in a VM on the work MS box.

Run MS OS like an app, inside a VM. Retain your Linux install.

First time installing solaar last week. Was from package manager on Trisquel(deb based).

All installed and detected automatically. Probably the same under Fedora.

Try a purge/uninstall of solaar, and then put the dongle in before you reinstall.

(Random aside. If your PC auto-resumes after suspend, it may have picked up a logitech keyboard from another room. Unpair it from your dongle)

Trisquel is an Ubuntu base, with all non-free and binary-blobs removed.

Any spyware, data harvesting, tracking, advertising, or hidden code has been removed.

This also means some hardware will not work under Trisquel, because that hardware relied on drivers which were a blob of unreadable code.

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I think everyone running Linux should try an FSF endorsed distro, and have it as a general goal to move towards over time. The easy way, is to try it first on a LiveUSB or in a VM.

To really see these distros shine, they need to be used on hardware that has open-drivers available.

To find functional open-hardware, you can use the same hardware models that various online, libre, hardware-retailers are using, such as:

minifree.org

vikings.net

thinkpenguin.com

Or trawl through h-node.org to decipher what may work.

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A second 100% libre laptop or box is a good idea for sensitive or personal content.

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In my experience, yes, Jitsi was smoother.

This was in 2024.

Delta Chat

is an E2EE chat client that uses SMTP as underlying transport. Available on Linux, Android, MacOS, iOS, Wind.

Excellent and polished.

Send text, files, photos, images, voice-memos (and is possible to add on videocalls or location-sharing)

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The email backend can be setup with a free account here:

https://nine.testrun.org/info.html

Or by using your own email server.

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Can also install JitsiMeet as the integrated video-chat client.

ArcaneChat is an alternative/expanded frontend client.

* Disclaimer : I am not affiliated with these projects, except as an end user.

Backing up a copy of that config file, before editing it.

If you brick or break anything, rolling back to a working-state is much easier.

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You can manually cp a 2nd version of the files, or there are tools to automatically backup for you.

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The popcon package in Debian gives the same details IIRC.

Something with LXDE or XFCE Desktop Environment, that is usually the DE for low-spec distros.

You made a great choice of distro for media creation.

Some background information and other options are below.

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Ubuntu studio is a distro targeted at creatives(audio, visual).

Ubuntu is touted as a ‘high ease of use’ distro, but as a company, it is a user-data collector and advertising injector.

For a similar audio/visual targeted distro, but one that is free/libre and includes no spyware or tracking, you could try Dynebolic.

Can be booted as a LiveUSB (or LiveDVD) to test.

* NB. Any hardware connected to your PC, that needs proprietary drivers, will probably not work because those drivers are not included in any Libre Distros.

Also NB, Dynebolic is made by friendly, neighborhood, activist, Rastafarians.

Usage video here

Yes, I’ve run Trisquel on all house devices for 10-12 years, plus libreboot.

Other commenters are correct, plenty of hardware will not function at all without its proprietary blobs. Frustrating at first, but then good riddance once you find libre alternatives.

For new hardware purchases you can follow what hardware various online hardware retailers are using, such as:

minifree.org

vikings.net

thinkpenguin.com

Or trawl through h-node.org to decipher what may work.

This trims out all the proprietary fluff real quick, both software and hardware. Backdoor vectors from obfuscated-blobs are removed.

Trimmed out a ton of games too. No big loss. Initially thinking there was no way to live without X-proprietary game, but there is.

Many people have jobs that are tied to particular proprietary packages. Can run those contained in a virtual-machine or on a box other than your daily.

Proprietary software may or may not be brainrot, make your own conclusions, but I am calmer and sleep better these days.

I’ve met Stallman, Linus, and Wales, and they are shining a light to show a realistic path to a more open future. I support and use that each day.

Skip the FUD and all the best.

Cursed O’Reilly

Thought you meant ‘app for Windows’.

Like mentioned here, I usually tap PrintScreen and then annotate elsewhere, usually in Gimp.

Greenshot GPL3

…but also Linux.