Tag: Switching
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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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Launcher 10 Relieves my Windows Phone Nostalgia
NOTE: As usual, this is not paid or endorsed in any way. Rather, this is an honest review of an Android launcher after I used it for a while. Because nobody has paid me to express myself, I get to be as honest and critical as I like. I didn’t update on this during my…
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Omnivore: A Read-It-Later App I Actually Want to Use
UPDATE: As much as I liked using Omnivore, this page didn’t age too well. As of November 2024, Omnivore is shutting down, which will prompt me to continue my search for an alternative. Switching jobs sometimes requires moving out of where you live, further than you expected. Moving can also be expensive, expensive enough to…
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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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My Progress with openSUSE So Far
I didn’t want to leave people hanging too long on this, so I decided to post an update with how I’ve been using openSUSE thus far. My one-month challenge is almost over, although I have been enjoying the distro for the most part this time around, and I have been taking notes over the passing…
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I’m Running openSUSE for 30 Days on my Workstation
It’s the month of March! That can only mean my favorite holiday is just around the corner. I’m a pretty big fan of St. Patrick’s Day and love being able to wear green, pound a few bottles of Guinness, and talk in an unconvincing Irish accent for an entire day. But lately, I’ve started to…
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Why I Don’t Distro Hop
This is going to be a much shorter post than I normally do, but I was originally planning a longer, very different post from this. As regular readers of the site know, I’m a Linux user. At home on my desktop, I run Arch Linux. On the go with my personal workstation, a ThinkPad laptop,…
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An Android User Switched to His First iPhone for a Year
I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time now, especially since I’ve had the past few years at this point to reflect on how everything has been since then. In fact, I could argue that writing this personal retrospective now makes me more objective than if I had just switched back to an…
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Updates Involving Brave and Uphold
Here’s another short entry, although this time it’s going to be a brief follow-up regarding my attempts to get help from both Brave Support and the Uphold Team. I’m Back On Brave! I kid you not, but less than 30 minutes after my post on why I stopped using Brave went up, Brave Support actually…
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5 Fantastic Lightweight Distros to Run on Old Hardware
I recently dug up a ThinkPad T61 that was given to me a very long time ago by a friend who, at that time, was moving to another house across town. The laptop is rather usable overall, but it’s still starting to show signs of aging. It also made me stop and consider something. What…
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