Tag: Windows
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The Black Core 2 Duo MacBook is Still Perfectly Usable
I know when I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole. I’m primarily a Linux user first and foremost; I have a desktop running Arch, a secondary workstation running openSUSE, and a server running Ubuntu. Despite that, and despite the fact that I’ve been using macOS on an M1 at work (because it’s either that or being…
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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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Make macOS Feel More Like Linux
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 dust at home. While I am still free to use my tried and true Arch Linux machine at home, my new job’s network…
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Windows XP Is Still My Favorite Windows of All Time
There have been recent developments with myself being hired by a new employer, which has left me without a job for just a couple of weeks. During that time as I got my paperwork, background check, verification, and so on finished before hire, I found myself with an abundance of extra time. Even with the…
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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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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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Using AI To Revive Your Old Wallpapers
I’ve been rather busy as of late with NaNoWriMo, and I’m happy to report I’ve been writing daily consistently. I’ve left my other growth-related goals on hold since October, but I feel it’s well worth the trouble, as I’ve made quite a bit of progress on the novel I’ve been drafting. Still, I wanted to…
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Run This, Not That! Recommended Alternatives to Popular Software
I was browsing AlternativeTo recently, a site I like to check every so often. The cool thing about the site, as the name implies, is how it’s designed to look up information on software and apps along with user-curated alternatives. There are also lists edited and created by the community for given subjects or niches…
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The Fight for 3rd Place: A Windows Phone Retrospective
This post is part one of a two-part series discussing also-ran competitors to the ever-dominant iOS and Android. You can read the second part on BlackBerry here. It’s no secret that smartphones have taken over the mobile and computing world. While some of us are still old enough to remember when pagers, PDAs, and phones…
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Revisiting (and Returning To) Vivaldi Browser
The Mid-Aughts: Switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox I’ve used web browsers just like anybody else who’s touched a computer in the past two decades, but it was only around the mid-2000s when I started to actually pay some attention to internet browsers in general. As somebody who used Windows XP (still my favorite Windows…
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