Zorin ain't just a Bond villain. 'Tis a nice distro. To wit, here's a pretty long, thorough review of Zorin OS 17.3 Core, tested in a dual-boot configuration on a laptop with AMD processor and integrated graphics and NMVe storage, covering live session, installation and post-install use, including look and feel, customization, ergonomics, desktop effects, surprisingly decent dark theme, partitioning, language locale annoyances, tour and first-boot setup, problematic software management - slug...| Dedoimedo RSS
Today, we're gonna do fun stuff! Presenting, a happy, enthusiastic article showcasing an SSD upgrade on a 10-year-old Lenovo G50 laptop with i3 processor, integrated graphics and 8 GB of RAM, including overview of the existing eight-boot setup on HDD, numerous ergonomic and functional reasons for the operating system choice - Kubuntu 24.04, first installation on mechanical storage for comparison purposes, second installation on SSD with encryption, various problems and annoyances with the Cal...| Dedoimedo RSS
I honestly believe you will enjoy today's article, immensely. This is a sweet, sweet, clever tutorial showing how to play the old Windows 98 era Pharaoh and Cleopatra RTS games on modern Linux systems with HD and UHD displays, covering game installation via WINE in a separate prefix, 96 DPI virtual desktop configuration, Xephyr nested X session matched to game resolution on a separate virtual display, x11vnc server scaled up to system's native resolution, Pharaoh startup in the Xephyr session...| Dedoimedo RSS
Let's spice it up for the weekend. I give thee an article discussing Linux software management problems, inspired by the recent Fedora OBS Studio Flatpak incident, highlighting numerous problems with usability and security, covering topics like distribution-owned repositories and community sources, official and unoofficial packages, chain of trust, control, centric versus distributed models, monetary incentives, numerous self-defeating paradoxes, and more. Enjoy.| Dedoimedo RSS
Review of Gnome 40 desktop environment, tested in Fedora 34 beta, covering look and feel, ergonomics and many associated problems in the default design, new Activities, Gnome Tweaks, Extensions, desktop scaling, performance, search, tour, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Tutorial explaining how to make the default Gnome 3 desktop more productive and accessible, including Gnome Tweak Tool, windows buttons and application menu, essential extensions, panel-like dock, how to show desktop, software tweaks and changes, other tips and tricks, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Short article and tutorial introducing Dash to Panel, a Gnome Shell extension that provides panel-like dock behavior instead of the default Activities and overview functionality, including a slightly non-trivial setup, look & feel, features, comparison to Dash to Dock, small problems, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Article discussing various hardware-related issues when running Linux, covering numerous usage scenarios - 32-bit and 64-bit hardware and operating systems, Intel- and AMD-based processors, Intel, AMD and Nvidia graphics, network adapters from multiple vendors, Arch, Debian, Red Hat, and SUSE distributions, data and results from fifteen years worth of problems with connectivity, display, mouse, suspend and resume, power management and other issues on about as many laptop models, comparison to...| www.dedoimedo.com
Review of openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release distribution, Plasma edition, tested in a multi-boot setup on an AMD-processor laptop with Windows and Linux, covering installation and post-install usage, including smart partitioning defaults, noisy and slow boot process, good look and feel, small customization, average font quality, complicated software management - missing icons, problems with verified and unverified third-party applications, mix of RPM packages and Flatpaks, chain of trust co...| www.dedoimedo.com
Article showing the physical replacement process of a hard disk - from HDD to SSD in a 10-year-old Lenovo IdeaPad Y50-70 laptop, subsequent setup of the Kubuntu 24.04 LTS operating system, various issues related to installer, drivers and basic desktop functionality, new speed and responsiveness benchmarks, problems with performance with some programs, less-than-expected improvements overall, comparison to benchmarks and results from a decade back with alternative init systems and slower stora...| www.dedoimedo.com
Overview of the current state of readiness of the Wayland display server protocol for everyday usage, tested on two physical systems with integrated AMD and hybrid Intel + Nvidia graphics using the Plasma 6 desktop environment, with comparison to X11 across multiple aspects of functionality like stability, responsiveness, HD fractional scaling, mouse behavior, program compatibility, suspend & resume, session restore, login time, display calibration, driver support, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Detailed review of Plasma 6 desktop environment, covering testing in a virtual machine and on a laptop with AMD processor and integrated graphics, including look & feel, new UI and theme elements, Wayland and X11 sessions, HD display scaling, new system settings, screenshots without shadows, performance, responsiveness, various usability problems and visual artifacts, problems with system monitor and search, many issues with physical hardware compatibility, broken installer, other observation...| www.dedoimedo.com