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So, what have you been reading recently? | 📚 Weekly book discussion, review, and recommendations thread, June 28th, 2026 (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Why not WSL?

Open PowerShell in administrator mode by right-clicking and selecting "Run as administrator"
Run wsl --install
Reboot the computer
Go to the Microsoft Store and search for "Ubuntu"
Install Ubuntu
Now you have the Ubuntu distribution of Linux in your computer
Open Ubuntu and set a password
Follow your instructions in Codeberg

I can't recall if there's any set-up besides this, but I think that using WSL is better than rawdogging EXEs in Windows.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That's actually very smart, for people who aren't afraid of using WSL. Then you would just sudo apt installthe dependencies (and I assume since it's an ubuntu subsystem it already has python 3.12), and then run the installer for Linux through WSL:

curl -fsSL https://codeberg.org/CritBase111/speech-to-text/raw/branch/main/install.sh | bash

I also heard that your C:\ drive mounts in the WSL through /mnt/c/, so you can pass any audio file to stt by simply specifiying 'stt transcribe "/mnt/c/Documents/my_video.mp4"'

but I assume you will have to run stt through the WSL cli from then on?

[–] TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes it would be the CLI. Thing is that it's simpler since the Linux filesystem gets exposed in the File Manager (it's literally a "Linux" tab next to "This computer")

So, you can just drag and drop a file from the Videos folder in Windows into Linux and vice-versa.

So you could drag the video into Linux, run stt transcribe /home/user/my_video.mp4 and then grab it back to Windows Videos folder (or just use the Linux folder since it's treated as a regular directory by Windows)

It's easier for a beginner than messing with mounting and mv. It's what I do in my work computer whenever I need to do something with yt-dlp.

It's very, very convenient. I wonder if WSL is the reason why winget was abandoned