Re: This was quite a night/morning ...

On 10/17/2024 9:14 AM, Joel wrote:

Joel Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
 

So, PBS released a new "Frontline" ep, about the Gaza war.  I was
thinking of streaming it with my computer, to my television screen as a
second monitor, but openSUSE was not having that work correctly.  I
tried two pitiful distros that I quickly disposed of, before trying what
I'm writing this on, Debian 12.  Seems to work perfectly with the TV as
a monitor, *but* I needed to get the NVIDIA proprietary drivers
installed, because Nouveau was laggy AF with my 4K main screen.  Problem
being, my user account wasn't allowed to use sudo, for some reason, I
guess I'm not used to these more techie distros, but it's been a good
learning experience.  I Googled and did some reading, and eventually
resolved that, and it's just a matter of continuing to set things up,
e.g. Wine.  Suck on it, Win11/DFS.

  Got Wine done.  Quite pleased with myself.

I'm not clear what you accomplished.  It sounded like you chased your tail all day and night.
Are you saying you beat the GuhNoo crapware and you're streaming Frontline wirelessly from your desktop computer to your TV?  If so, good job.
Why did you need Wine?
Your first post in this thread came via Thunderbird.  Did you install an entire distro just to setup this streaming situation?