the vast majority of people will be OK with this

I don’t think the vast majority of Windows users are even aware of the Xbox Game Bar to begin with, let alone all the features there.

The rounded corners are cosmetic. Using the 3-dots menu you cannot put a video into more than playlist at once any longer. The checkboxes are gone and clicking the new bookmark icon next to a playlist closes the window.

I use it all the time to categorize music.

Imagine Microsoft’s top management was competent and leveraged their PC operating system monopoly with their dominant gaming position (ABK + Minecraft alone are massive, not even counting Bethesda and the older 1st studios).

what’s the most efficient way of backing everything up and moving across to a distro that’s more actively maintained?

Honestly, don’t migrate everything. Things can break when moving configuration files between distributions and you’d end up having more work than backing up the necessities (user files) and doing the rest from scratch. User IDs in the file metadata are the first thing to mismatch and things could spiral down from there (looking for files in one place but the new distribution places it somewhere else, for example).

Get an external hard disk, format it as ExFAT and copy documents, videos, downloads,… from your home directory onto it. ExFAT does not support Linux file permissions, so from your new distribution you can copy the files without any “permission denied” errors.

Sadly Ubuntu and its derivatives such as Neon are still often recommended to newcomers for historical reasons even though there are more stable and easier distributions around. Ubuntu fucking up Flatpak compatibility in its latest release is just another chapter in an endless saga. Fedora KDE should offer a good balance between long term availability, recent KDE software and stability. Personally, I’m more of an openSUSE guy myself but some quirks may be a bit much for newcomers.

Sorry that I am too lazy to watch the video, but what does the doc do? Just charging or video out as well?

Considering that I already wrote “Followup to I Made A Junk System Into The Ultimate 3DS Console – complete with USB-C charging and capture card” into the description of the post, it obviously supports video out for that specific modded 3DS.

In case anyone only wants to watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tPCrbHunXs

Try https://fedoraproject.org/kde/download using its own Media Writer. Pretty sure it’s Rufus that’s causing this. If Fedora works, you can try to use Media Writer with Xubuntu’s ISO if it really has to be Xubuntu. Personally, I would recommend against it because getting rid of that Snap shit is more hassle than it’s worth. Might just as well use a distribution that respects its users.

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A cropped screen grab of that video would have saved me a lot of time. 😅

Also while Linux is not the same as UNIX, interacting with them is much more similar than, say, interacting with Windows.

If you use only GUI, the underlying system philosophy is practically irrelevant.

If you use CLI, you can literally use the same distribution within WSL as you use on a Linux computer. I like using openSUSE’s zypper in WSL more than I like brew on macOS.

It’s different SKUs on Switch 1 and 2 and the Switch2 version costs 10 Euro more.

I think this is a bit more involved than extended file format support.

Also not entirely sure what I would use it for since I’ve mostly seen it with rips of Blu-ray movies and shows, never smaller files. I thought its main advantage was holding multiple video, audio, and data streams.

WebM shows that Matroska is excellent for streaming. It’s the same container, WebM just mandates a set of codecs (just as MP4 as an offshoot of MOV can theoretically hold non-MPEG codecs but nobody supports this in the real world). With formal Matroska support, something like combining a HEVC video track with an Opus audio would be possible.

WebM is just Mastroska with most features disabled that are not relevant to streaming and a mandated set of codecs, so basic Mastroska support would have been possible years ago, simply by accepting the Matroska MIME types.

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Not sure your support question how to format Lemmy replies qualifies…

If you train a local LLM and let that LLM write your thesis for you, it’s fine.

I meant this Nintendo video, not USB one.

This Nintendo video is about the USB issue. So you troll without even watching what it’s all about…

[In addition to my other reply:]

So the video is essentially saying that Nintendo requiring docks be their proprietary basic one and not supporting third-party docks with more features could be a sign of companies like Apple, Samsung, and others making their USB/Thunderbolt ports proprietary?

Doubt it.

Yeah. Apple, Google, etc. are gatekeppers according to the EU, Nintendo currently isn’t. So they can do it without pushback, others can’t.

the Switch OS may have started as an Android fork (I’m not sure how true this was at release — prior to the Switch launch it was reported that they were forking Android)

What? That has never been true. The Switch OS is a continuation of the 3DS OS which is why Yuzu is a fork of Citra. Switch uses a few Android libraries here and there and also some FreeBSD code in the kernel.

Seems you confuse Nintendo with Huawei and their HarmonyOS which used to be an Android fork.

I just got the Switch 1 OLED 11 months ago

So you’re telling yourself that the Switch 2 is a minor update because it makes you feel better…

This video didn’t bring anything new to the table

Unless somebody (you?) posted another video showing the output of such an USB analyzer here, it does bring something new to the table. It’s definitively 1000% more insightful than your “LTT, ewww” comment.

Switch 2 is a massive upgrade over the original. There are business practices to criticize (key cards, no OLED screen, paid cloud saves, this dock) but to claim that it’s just a minor upgrade is to say it bluntly quite ignorant. Other recent handhelds could take a hint regarding power consumption and weight.