Tag: Linux
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Switching to Windows Content (And Other Major Changes)
I was hanging out after work the other day with my three best friends: Mike, Twister, and Guinn. We were sharing an entirely modest amount of drinks at our local pub that afternoon. It was only after we sipped some of our lemonade that Mike brought up the idea of himself starting a blog. Twister,…
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An Arch User Learns to Love Snaps
Or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love snapd!” I never thought I’d write about this now, but as a longtime Linux user, I got by using packages in my distro’s default repositories, the AUR, Flatpaks, and the occasional AppImage here or there. When anyone so much as mentioned using Canonical’s Snaps, I usually…
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Make macOS Feel More Like Linux (UPDATED)
NOTE: I made a few updates now recommending both yabai and Sketchybar in addition to the other tools already listed in the post. I have a confession to make. While I love Linux and prefer to use it, I haven’t used my openSUSE workstation in the past few months. My reliable ThinkPad has been collecting…
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I Won’t Let Internet Time Be Forgotten
I’ll be the first to admit it: I’ve never been a big fan of the metric system. Growing up the way I did, I got used to indicating the weather in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, I always liked seeing my football teams gain yards to score a first down instead of running meters to kick…
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Why is My Nextcloud Snap Using More Storage?
Here’s another one of my quick Linux tips, this time largely dealing with what happens to a Nextcloud instance installed with Snap as it takes up too much mystery storage. How Did You Fix It? I still recommend reading up on this before jumping to the solution in case you had the same issue I…
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I Tried 3 Spotify Alternatives within a Month. Here’s How They Compare.
I started seriously using Spotify approximately nine years ago. My current account is the one I’ve stuck with through thick and thin, and it has so much of my listening history from over the years. But I’d be lying if I said the grass didn’t look greener sometimes. I believe it was almost two years…
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Windows is Worsening: Why I’ll Never Go Back
Longtime readers of the blog know I’ve been daily driving Linux since 2020. Said readers may also know I briefly used Linux back in the late 2000s and early 2010s back when I was a young Mr. Hyde, but there are some key differences between both of those stints on Linux (as well as how…
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Working Image Previews in Krusader on a non-KDE Desktop
(NOTE: Skip this top section and scroll down to “Just Give Me The Solution” if you just want the answer to fix this right away.) I have another quick Linux tip here, and this one is about Krusader, the Qt5-based, double-pane file manager for Linux. If you just recently installed Krusader for the first time,…
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Play Podcasts in the Terminal with Castero
I had an itch recently to listen to some podcasts again, something I haven’t done as often as I used to several years ago. While I am aware that Spotify has some pretty nice podcast support, that’s mostly for the GUI app. Trying to listen to podcasts on spotify-player doesn’t really make sense for me…
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When Deleting the Swap Partition Leads to Slow Boot Times
I Just Want to Fix This Problem! This is part of my “Quick Tips” for Linux; you’ll want to skip this starting section and go straight down to “Just Give Me The Steps!” if you’re in the same boat I was. Otherwise, if you want to see if your situation regarding swap partitions is similar…
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