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I've been using Linux Mint exclusively for a year and a half now, and I've gotten pretty used to the ecosystem, but I don't want to have to wait another year for them to implement HDR support for video playback. I also don't want to go through the effort of fully swapping distros (don't have time to completely reorganize my workflow at the moment, etc.).

Does anyone have a recommendation for a distro that I could run in RAM from a USB stick with an up-to-date version of KDE Plasma or another DE when I want to watch HDR movies?

Or, if I'm overthinking this and there's another obvious, simpler solution, please feel free to let me know that as well.

Edit: I thought about running Alpine Linux in RAM, but I'd have to reinstall Plasma every time I rebooted since I'm pretty sure it doesn't come with a DE by default.

Edit 2: Thanks for all of the helpful comments everyone! For those asking, live USB are usually pretty slow and clunky in my experience when they run from the USB stick, and I wasn't sure if that would interfere with video playback.

I think I'm just going to try a KDE Neon live USB and see if I can get HDR video working that way, without trying to run it from RAM. Thanks again!

Bat is the way in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

A post completely misunderstanding Batman on Lemmy? Must be a day that ends in "y".

Rule in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

That poison?

"Deleted by creator" sounds like the poster was destroyed by God. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

This feels more like "10 guy thoughts" than shower thoughts

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Zero chance they don't

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How to easily create a mirrored keyboard layout/layer that can be accessed with the Alt keys? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Inspired by this post by Randall Munroe.

I want something that does basically the same thing - mirror the keyboard's letter and common punctuation keys - but while pressing either of the Alt keys instead of using CapsLock. Also, I use Dvorak, not QWERTY.

I'd rather use my thumb as the modifier so that reaching the shift key in addition to the modifier key doesn't mess with my finger movement too much, and this way I'll be able to type one-handed with either my left or right hand. Also, I never use any of the Alt shortcuts that use the letter/punctuation keys, so getting rid of those shortcuts won't be a problem

Any ideas on how this could be accomplished? I'm on Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon (but also have a Mint MATE laptop that I'd like to replicate this on, if possible).

Edit: All I've tried so far is checking the keyboard layout options to try to turn off Alt shortcuts activating the top bar of applications, to free them up for the shortcuts I'd need, but no luck so far.