Tag: Linux

  • Setting up a VPS for several small e-commerce businesses (part 1)

    Setting up a VPS for several small e-commerce businesses (part 1)

    Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to set up a few websites, both static and dynamically generated. A few years ago, I’ve settled on Wordpress as my default choice, initially simply building up sites from themes and plugins, until I bit the bullet and started adding my own snippets of PHP and later building…

  • ElementaryOS 6 Odin

    ElementaryOS 6 Odin

    Since I haven’t written anything in a while, much less a comprehensive distribution review, a little updated background info is in order. In past years, I’ve toned down my “Linux on everything” push and went slightly more practical in my day-to-day life. I probably will write a short story on my transformation from an obsessed…

  • Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Mega Review – A complex look at the state of Ubuntu

    Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Mega Review – A complex look at the state of Ubuntu

    As somebody who’s always had Ubuntu in his daily life for the past 13 years, I sometimes find it hard to differentiate between all the versions. I do appreciate the progress though, albeit I’ve felt like the direction Ubuntu was taking was going to force me to abandon it eventually. Lately, though, I’ve enjoyed the…

  • elementary OS 5.1 Hera

    elementary OS 5.1 Hera

    When I received the newsletter letting me know that in just a few days, there would be a new point release of elementary OS, I’ve had mixed feelings. I was happy that the project I find very endearing is chugging along nicely, but I knew it would be a tough review to write. The problem…

  • Fedora 31 Review

    Fedora 31 Review

    Most people know me as a long-time Gnome hater. I admit, I’ve been hard on it, but once in a while, I do try to challenge my own views by diving into stuff I didn’t appreciate at first. For this reason, I’ve decided to give Fedora 31 some time to shine on my primary laptop.…

  • Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine Review

    Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine Review

    If you’ve read any of my previous reviews, you know that I have a difficult relationship with Gnome. I love the aesthetics, but I despise the number of desktop crashing bugs, dropped frames and the number of extra clicks you need to make to get anything done. That being said, Gnome 3.34 in Ubuntu 19.10…

  • Manjaro 18.10 (KDE Edition) Non-Review (2019)

    Manjaro 18.10 (KDE Edition) Non-Review (2019)

    Manjaro is a strange beast. It’s a distribution based upon the memetic Arch Linux. That doesn’t mean it’s BFU-hostile, though, or that you have to set it all up from scratch. In fact, Manjaro is an easy to setup distro you could install for your grandparents and sleep soundly knowing they will always have the…

  • Ubuntu Budgie 19.04 Review

    Ubuntu Budgie 19.04 Review

    This review is one of the longest in the making ever since starting this blog. I’ve been using Ubuntu Budgie on my desktop workstation even before I’ve installed Xubuntu 19.04 on my main laptop for it’s review. From day one, I kinda liked it, making in my eyes a ton more sense than Gnome Shell…

  • Xubuntu 19.04

    Xubuntu 19.04

    If there is a desktop environment that I always somehow evaded, it’s XFCE. I’ve always thought that I had my DEs well categorized – Unity was awesome, but misunderstood and limited to Ubuntu, Gnome 2 / MATE was/is featureful, but it’s widgets and applets crash constantly, LXDE brought new life for computers with less than…

  • KDE Neon (18.04) Review

    KDE Neon (18.04) Review

    My very first experience with KDE was back in the day of Ubuntu 7.10, with KDE 3. I quickly got overwhelmed by the breadth of settings, it’s modularity and default look similar to Windows platform, from which I had just escaped. It only took me a few days, before I switched back to Gnome 2…