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Rose @MewMus1/19/2023, 5:20 AM

Moving to Linux full-time has actually been a lot easy than I thought

There are quirks I run into that are frustrating sometimes sure, but I run into the exact same amount on Windows, so whilst I would say it's overall a side-grade it's one that I'm happy enough to have made, even if just because my file explorer is purple now

That said... I also transitioned from Chrome to Firefox at the same time and there are some genuine complaints I have

Most of them are really minor things, such as instability issues, not being able to watch as many Picarto streams at the same time or certain webpages not rendering properly all the time, but the biggest one that may genuinely be a deal breaker is translation support

Around 30% of everything I interact with on the internet on a daily basis is not in English, this is a problem because I'm a dumb adult with ADHD who can only speak English and struggles terribly to learn other languages

Solution? Well the excellent Google translate plugin! With this easy little thing I can just highlight any text I want to translate and a little pop-up shows up in seconds to help me read clearly what a cool artist is saying on twitter or the title of a video on YouTube

...except this plugin is broken beyond repair on Firefox, there isn't a good alternative and this isn't a Linux issue, there is just no quick and easy way to translate foreign text in FF... I do this regularly enough that having to open a second tab > go to google translate > copy paste the text, is really breaking my flow when engaging online

If there is a genuine solution to this that is AS GOOD or easier than the excellent integration of google translate in Chrome, I'm all ears, because as it stands right now... I may need to ditch FF for my own usability and I really don't want to

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🌊@wave1/19/2023, 5:55 AM

Hmm. I use a Firefox add-on called Translate Web Pages and it's been great, really filled a need I had in Firefox. I rec trying it if you haven't.

It is open source and can also be installed in Chromium-based browsers.

Rose @MewMus1/19/2023, 6:24 AM

Thank you!!

This is exactly what I've spent like 2 weeks now searching for!

I don't like the UI as much as google translates native plugin, but this is working exactly how I wanted otherwise!! 💕

🌊@wave1/19/2023, 6:46 AM

Wonderful! Glad to hear. I certainly find it indispensable.

Kinda weird that it's not more of a widely solved problem for Firefox in 2023.

Phos @flashfennec1/19/2023, 6:55 AM

Having zero problems with my current build. It's just crazy how much Linux has changed in the last year.

Rose @MewMus1/19/2023, 8:42 AM

I honestly thank the steam deck increasing the user base of "desktop Linux users" exponentially

I still don't think it's perfect, but like it's genuinely as serviceable as Windows now

Plum @plumpan1/19/2023, 2:47 PM

This may or may not be a solution for you, but regarding picarto and other video sites:

In browser video players kinda suck and I hate them. They chew up a lot of CPU and picarto is particularly bad about that. There's a video player called mpv that uses the program youtube-dl to grab video streams from all kinds of websites. I vastly prefer loading the video of places like twitch, picarto, youtube, etc via that and having a Normal Video Player Window for it instead of whatever rubbish web app player someone wrote. Often you still have to deal with whatever rubbish chat app they wrote. Picarto annoyingly will let you pop out the chat but NOT close the original tab and continue to have chat. Chatty can be used for twitch. Youtube chat is best ignored.

This obviously has downsides, window management being the biggest one. That gets worse with picaro multistream too as you've gotta open each stream. And some people hate typing anything into command line even if it's just mpv *paste*. But I love it.

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