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  • Not OP, but can only speak from my experience: Installing a second WM/DE usually messes up my install, as quite some stuff is just from one GUI framework, so I don’t have to have to much stuff installed.
    Also getting rid of it afterwards always wasn’t as easily possible.

    I completely get trying out a WM y firing up a VM. You could even just boot the live USB stick to check it out.
    But changing my working install just to try something (and then have to clean it up again) wasn’t working out for me in the past








  • naeap@sopuli.xyztoRetroGaming@lemmy.worldLinux Running on an NES?
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    8 months ago

    I just saw that SponsorBlock got the same video is working on YouTube, but not piped instances - at least in PipePipe (beautifully named NewPipe+SponsorBlock fork)

    Is SponsorBlock even available for such videos?
    Is there a way to like link them up to already marked videos or would we have to do the same work again?

    I haven’t really spent time with all of that, but as piped is supported by NewPipe/PipePipe, it would be quite convenient to use - but if I lose my SponsorBlock capabilities, I will need to reassess that choice (using piped over YouTube - NewPipe/PipePipe is awesome!)









  • As long as the laptop boots, you should be able to switch to a TTY console, where you have a complete shell interface to your system after logging in (in said TTY console). So, being greeted with a login screen or something is a win here - but you’re very vague in your report.

    The GUI is only just a program and has nothing to do with your boot options in BIOS or bootloader (like grub).

    Using CTRL-ALT-[F1-9/0] you can switch between your virtual consoles and on only one of them your GUI is running.
    You can use any other one to change anything on the system from CLI.
    You should also be able to stop the current GUI/X11 Session and directly start the window manager you wish - temporarily to fix your system, if you’re not confident in the CLI.