I don't want Chrome on my Linux system but I almost installed it last night. Why? Because apparently half the internet says that that is what is necessary if you want to screen share or mirror your monitor to a smart TV on the same network because "the linux implementation of Miracast is fucked". Oh, don't worry, you can try Brave or Chromium too, except they don't work because while the TV shows up as an option you can cast to, you can't actually cast because the option is grayed out due to some "specific media sites" error. Don't worry, this option can be changed in the //flags and if that doesn't work then try changing this other flag, except that other flag doesn't exist on Brave and Chromium and it must be assumed it only exists on Chrome.

But wait, there's a utility called MKchromecast, it mimics the ability without needing to install chrome, but doesn't recognize the TV. Oh it has all of these dependencies that need to be downloaded. It still doesn't work. There's always Gnome Displays, which has the exact same pattern of missing a bunch dependencies that must be hunted down and then not seeing the TV. While searching for dependencies on my software manager I find Jubii, a nice little media caster with a tidy, intuitive UI that happily connects to my TV immediately and cheerfully shows me all of media libraries but as soon as I ask it to play a mirror of my screen it loads for 2 minutes and times out with an error.

Then I realized it was 4:30am and I had to go to bed.

I'm relatively new to Linux. What is the preferred solution when a website demands a chrome-based browser? I installed Chromium for these cases, but is that frowned upon? My daily driver is tor-based and it's rare but not unheard of for a website to complain.

I'm lucky enough when I did my Linux Fundamentals course we had someone who is old and knowledgeable. The downside is you had to do things more or less closer to his way, which was certainly not always a bad thing since he knew what he was talking about. It was also my first experience with using MATE, too, because that was his preference.

That class, I'll admit, did help me a little when it came to my laptop as well since In was probably the only student running Linux on a personal computer outside of that class.

Them poor underfunded folk just doing their best out of their love for humanity.

Too ez prey to be proud of the hunt.

Still lol tho.

And then it sort of kind of works through Wine but it's a bit janky...

I once saw a professor failing to clear a Windows' CMD with "clear" several times until he just gave up and kept working. It was so bizarre.