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Looking for a Windows WIN+H-style speech-to-text solution on Linux

On Windows, I regularly used WIN+H to activate speech recognition and dictate directly into any text field. It was a huge timesaver for my writing workflow.

Now that I’ve switched to Linux, I’m wondering:
Is there anything similar on Linux that allows system-wide speech-to-text dictation? Ideally something lightweight and privacy-friendly.

And if that's not possible: can anyone recommend a simple Markdown editor where I could use speech recognition reliably?
Open source tools, practical setups, or personal experiences are all very welcome!

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Acer laptop with locked nvram

I have an old laptop that I fight not to throw away, and for fun I have been trying to install linux on it for a long long time.
Tried almost every possible distro, and they would all freeze in different parts of the install. And I cant start live linux.

Recently I found out that using ventoy, it is possible to run live linux. (balena etcher and rufust dont work)
Then I saw that all installations fail at bootloader stage. And after googling, i found that the problem is locked nvram.


Is there a distro than can be easily installed on a laptop with locked nvram.
Laptop is acer es1-533. Old laptop that needs a light distro.

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wow, Linux just saved my gaming laptop

I have a Nitro V 15 with an RTX 4050 6GB I5 13 gen. I've never had anything to complain about in terms of gaming performance; after all, there's plenty of power left for the games I play. But for everything else, the performance was TERRIBLE, even after formatting the computer plenty of times. The biggest problems were:

Browser performance was completely unstable and made no sense at all. There were times when a website would take almost 3 minutes to load, sometimes even freezing the entire system ([similar to this problem](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/infinite-loading-in-new-tabs/b0e7bdb5-73a7-494d-a12a-408a77a40fea)). I thought it was a hardware issue (I tend to keep many tabs open) or a DNS problem, but I ended up just accepting it. When I switched to Pop!\_OS, this problem just disappeared, and web Browse became as fast as I expected it to be, even in battery-saving mode.
The battery life was horrendous. Even in battery-saving mode in Windows and Acer's software, it wouldn't even last an hour (proof it's not cap). Now, with Pop!_OS, set to battery-saving mode and running on the integrated GPU, it can last 4 hours; It quadrupled the battery life and stopped it from being just a mini PC with a screen that I need to keep plugged in all the time. Now I use it in battery-save mode even when it's plugged because the difference in performance is unnoticeable if I'm not playing something.

I'm not saying that Linux can/will save your laptop, I just want to state that this was my experience. The curious part is that I didn't even install Linux for this purpose; I just liked Pop!_OS when I tested it on my desktop for a while and downloaded it to my laptop's secondary SSD because I missed it, now I can't go back to Windows at all.

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"Danish Ministry of Digitalization is outphasing Microsoft and moving from Windows and Office365 to Linux and LibreOffice"

This is soon cool! Finally they make Microsoft sweat! They have had monopoly on these things for too long.

Kind regards
A happy Dane who uses Linux on main PC

Link to the danish article: https://politiken.dk/viden/tech/art10437680/Caroline-Stage-udfaser-Microsoft-i-Digitaliseringsministeriet


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there is more windowing systems?

From where is know the most popular windowing systems are X11 and Wayland, and there is other like Mir or event other more peculiar like DirectFB. But i wonder if there are others that have an spesific use case or they are still mantained but for a spesific niche, like Rio for Plan9 or they are new like someone is making it's own windoing system just to learn

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Serious Why getting to properly use Linux after years of using Windows feels like getting on a new hobby?

Hi everyone,

I've been a tech guy all my life. I even work in tech as a Senior dev. My very first job involved using Linux but didn't quite like it, even though I knew how to do the things I needed to do with it at the time. Now years forward, I decided on my own, to try Linux on my main rig, and after several failed attempts to try to get used to it and after multiple installations of Mint, since I went back to Windows over and over, because it didn't click for me, I finally got on good terms with it, and a year later I started using Arch, and have never felt so obsessed of using Linux, is like the more issues I need to solve, the need of installing additional packages as days go on, and having to read documentation and posts about the tools around Linux the more I feel I like it and want to know other people's experiences and also wanting to talk about it to people who are tech enthusiasts whenever I can

Have you felt the same? I cannot explain it.

Edit: reworded a part of my post to clarify I didn't fail at installing Linux but at getting used to it.

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