Long, thorough review of Fedora Workstation 42 Gnome edition, tested in a dual-boot configuration on a laptop with Ryzen 5 processor, AMD graphics, and NVMe storage, covering live session, installation and post-install usage, including look and feel, font clarity, better but still bad dark theme, ergnomic and speed considerations of Gnome and Gnome Classic desktops, necessary customization with Gnome Tweaks, extensions and icons, new installer wizard and associated problems, failed first inst...| 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
Short tutorial showing how to improve Plasma desktop performance and responsiveness and disable borders and shadows in Spectacle screenshots by toggling the system Compositor off, a few other tips and tricks, and a bit more| 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