Dr Jekell

You are barking up the wrong tree.

You are saying that your Steam Deck is not working with the wifi at your home but there is no issue with it working with airport, in-flight, and hotel wifi.

That immediately tells me that there is no issue with your Steam Deck but the POS router that your ISP has provided.

You need to:

A: call your ISP and get them to fix their broken POS router.

B: At a later time get your own wifi router then call your ISP to put their useless shit into bridge mode so you can use your own router.

What I do is start up Firefox first to create all the first start files then close it and delete everything in the Firefox folder then copy across everything from the original pc.

Seems to work alright.

I have had several distros working on the X205TA (I even had a how to guide written up on reddit years ago).

But I was not able to get a usable system (i.e. being able to use the system without waiting on average 20-120 sec for the device to process an action).

Life has gotten to the point that the effort to do so is better directed into activities that I would enjoy.

To be brutally honest about this, your best bet is to recycle the unit.

The problems of trying to get a distro to install properly, have all the hardware working right and have a usable experience are not worth the minimal upsides.

I have an ASUS X205TA which is a similar unit and after trying for countless hours to get a usable device out of it was not going to be worth the headaches plus if I was getting paid for the time I spent on it I could have brought an off lease laptop with better specs.

I have an LTS kernel as a backup in case something doesn’t work with my main kernel.

Just recently I had an issue where my main kernel had a bug where snap’s can’t start up, so I just restarted into the LTS kernel to use it then restarted back into my main kernel.

Hannah Montana Linux

If you can, get yourself a wireless access point instead.

You can connect the computer by ethernet to the access point that then connects to the WiFi network.

By having the device separate you can have it situated away from the computer for better connection and the computer only sees a wired connection.

Plus they tend to be more stable than dongles.

Just had fun with this with my optiplex 790.

Things I have found:

If you are using the front USB ports try the lower ports.

Make sure that you have formatted your live USB properly.

On boot press F12 to get the one time boot menu, if everything is right you should get a menu that gives you legacy boot options with UEFI boot options below that.

The big thing here is that not all live distros appear to work with the Dell UEFI implementation (got Linux Lite and Manjaro working)

This is why you back up your data!

I use both Timeshift and Lucky Backup.

Timeshift is setup to back up the entire OS and user data and fire off a backup when updating (onto an internal drive).

Lucky Backup has been setup to do a one way sync of my user folders (doc’s, download, pictures, videos etc) onto an external drive.

Settings > advanced > open links in apps

Set it to never and the blue dots should disappear (the instal option doesn’t go away from the menu though).

It’s likely an unfortunate casualty of Youtube’s enshitification

Have you checked when the last time the extension was updated?

YouTube has gone through a lot of back end changes to try and force people to watch more advertising than videos so it could be that YT has broken the system the extension was using.

I had this come up when I was using a locked down version of FF.

Basically what happened was the security settings were not allowing Twitch the access it required.

Once I went through and allowed access it worked fine.

For anyone looking for a basic PC have a look at off lease PC’s.

Most of the PC’s will be business class PC so even if they are several years old they still have several years more life left in them.

Did you adjust the resources given to the VM?

I know with Oracle Virtualbox it defaults to like 1 processor core and 500mb of ram for a VM.

Using a VM is being suggested as it is:

• Relatively easy to set up.
• Gives the user a full Windows OS which simplifies software installation.
• Allows for snapshot backups to be taken of the install meaning if something breaks you just roll back to a previous snapshot.
• The VM can have the internet disabled meaning no auto updates to the software or OS.
• Easy to remove the VM and virtualization software at a later date if required.
• The VM (or another) can be used to run other Windows only software.

Unfortunately Apple seems to be actively working to make sure that the only way an iPod can be loaded with music is by using iTunes which is only supported on Mac or Windows.

You have a few of options on how to move forward:

1: Make a Windows virtual machine, install iTunes onto it and pass the iPod though to the VM.

2: Install Rockbox (if able) onto the device to enable it to act as a USB mass storage device allowing drag n drop loading of music.

3: Sell the iPod and get one of the many different digital audio players available on the market as most are OS agnostic (they show up as a USB mass storage device) and most use MicroSD cards to store the music meaning you can move the card to a new player as you upgrade later (so you are not locked to one vendor).

Most likely rolling it out to a “small” segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.

Most likely rolling it out to a “small” segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.

Timeshift is what you are looking for if you want a functional backup system.