Linux

Compatibility layers can work in more ways than I thought.

I think I’ve finally figured it out. For now.

Ka-chow!

Dancing with the devil.

This is the year of the Linux (gaming) desktop. Or laptop.

It’s garbage. Extremely good looking garbage, but garbage nevertheless.

I know, shocker.

I was longing for a Steam Deck that had more oomph. Guess Valve felt that way, too.

Only one way to find out!

A few busted upgrades and the heavy-handed push of a software packaging solution has ruined Ubuntu for me.

Everything I learned from an incident that made me consider switching careers. It was a close one!

If all you have is an Ethernet cable, then everything looks like a temporary storage device.

I took some USB flash drives I had around and put Windows and Linux on them, here’s how it went.

Yes, you can decrypt your storage with a picture of your cat.

Fedora Linux is a great Linux distribution, but it has a few quirks that can impact your experience. Here’s how to fix them.

If your iPhone doesn’t show any photos when connected to a PC, then this guide may help you out.

Not all experiments end up being successful.

Turning a 15-year-old Canon PIXMA MP250 printer into a network printer was much easier than I initially thought.

It runs Linux and you can peek under the hood if you want to, but that’s not the point.

Not bad for a laptop originally released in 2003.

I’m just as surprised as you are.

It’s a jet engine with an integrated furnace, but at the same time it fits into the Linux compatibility sweet spot. Not great, not terrible.

I tried out HoloISO, the project that brings the Steam Deck experience to PC-s, on my ASRock DeskMini X300. Perhaps gaming on Linux isn’t dead after all?

I’ve tried out newer laptops before and it was nothing short of a disaster. Is this HP any different, or do I need to go back to my ThinkPad T430 again?

Some assembly required. No, not that one.

Experimenting with my fan control scripts ended up with an interesting discovery.

Sometimes the least technical solutions end up being the ones that I’m the most proud of. This is probably one of them.

I ramble about a tool that is great for taking regular snapshots on the btrfs filesystem.

If you have ever felt frustated with the Bluetooth experience that your ThinkPad T430 offers you, especially after upgrading the WiFi adapter to one that also has Bluetooth capabilities, then this article might help you out.

Oh, snap(per)!

A quick overview of my experience with setting it up on a small PC box and things to consider when attempting this yourself.

Or ‘How to downgrade your CPU at great expense!’

You have probably tried Stack Exchange and reddit at this point, so what do you have to lose?

Two issues make a solution after all.

Depends on your definition of could.