Long, detailed tutorial showing how to adjust the Plasma desktop environment for best viewability on small-size high-resolution screens, including native display scaling and associated artifacts, font size increase, GTK-2.0 and GTK-3.0 application configuration overrides, Firefox UI size change via userChrome.css overrides, Chrome UI size change via startup flags, other tips and tricks, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Review of Microsoft Edge, A Chromium-based browser, tested on Linux as a potential secondary browser, covering installation and setup, New Tab page layout, settings and configurations, telemetry, privacy tweaks, ease of use, address bar and URLs, HD desktop scaling, media playback, camera/microphone usage, performance, extensions, browser data input, various annoyances, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Follow-up article explaining my rationale for moving away from Windows as the operating system of choice, focusing on software parity between Windows and Linux, with a detailed breakdown of application categories, native or equivalent functionality, WINE support, and other key factors| www.dedoimedo.com
Tutorial showing how to install and configure SketchUp Make 2017 in Linux, including WINE 6.x setup from the upstream repository, dotNET and VC2015 redistributable dependencies, some other tips and tricks, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Article showing the phenomenal results with fractional display scaling in the Plasma desktop environment| www.dedoimedo.com
Review of the upgrade process from Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr to Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, including upgrade details, system and data integrity, niggles, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Review of Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver running the Unity desktop environment on an upgraded Asus Vivobook, including setup, look & feel, software and hardware compatibility, performance, resource usage, battery life, problems, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Review of Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver running the Plasma desktop environment on an upgraded Asus Vivobook, including setup, look & feel, Unity-like layout and customization, software and hardware compatibility, performance, resource usage, battery life, problems, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Review of the Plasma 5.16 desktop environment, including upgrade process and user setup, look and feel, better themes integration and management, consistency improvements, desktop shortcuts, notifications, new features in Discover and Vault, performance and responsiveness, robust updates, various fixes, some bugs, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Long, detailed article showing how to transform the Plasma desktop to look and behave like Unity, including Ambiance theme, window decorations, fonts and colors, United desktop theme, Humanity icons, Ubuntu wallpapers, integrated window buttons, window titles and global menu in the top panel, left-side Launcher-like panel, dashboard-like menu, other tips and tricks, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Follow-up review of Slimbook Titan laptop, with 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics, and two M.2 NVMe drives, covering Kubuntu 22.04 LTS installation, encrypted LVM, proprietary drivers setup, hybrid graphics and Nvidia on-demand profile, HD scaling on 2K resolution, Plasma desktop configuration, look and feel, Ubuntu Pro setup, hardware compatibility, ergonomics - screen and keyboard, performance, heating, noise, battery life, basic application and games test...| www.dedoimedo.com
Long-term usage review and report 1 of the Slimbook Titan laptop, with Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics and Kubuntu 22.04 LTS as the operating system, covering hardware, ergonomics, keyboard functionality, false positive regarding NVME storage failure, some software errors, day-to-day usage, gaming compatibility under Steam Proton, gaming performance and playability, overall impression, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Long-term usage review and report 1 of the Slimbook Executive laptop, with Kubuntu 22.04 LTS as the operating system, covering hardware, ergonomics, keyboard functionality, audio and display quality, battery life, case temperatures under different utilization conditions, day-to-day usage, software stability, gaming compatibility under Steam Proton, gaming performance and playability, various problems and niggles related to power management, odd system freeze, icon unpinning, menu shortcut bin...| www.dedoimedo.com
Short article announcing my purchase of a Slimbook Executive 14-inch laptop, following the battery bulge problem in the five-year-old Slimbook Pro2, with the new device intended as a replacement, covering considerations, hardware specifications, and a bit more| www.dedoimedo.com
Follow-up review of Slimbook Titan laptop, with 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics, and two M.2 NVMe drives, running Kubuntu 22.04 LTS, focusing on hardware and software behavior after one month of use, including keyboard and screen ergonomics, fan noise, heat factor, battery life, Fn keys functionality, power management, Bluetooth, Samba speed, some niggles and small problems with remote share file locking, Dolphin by-date grouping, font in GwenView, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Long, thorough review of my experiment and attempt to use only Linux on a previously dual-boot laptop with hybrid Intel and Nvidia graphics and 4K screen, with Kubuntu 22.04 LTS as the operating system choice, covering LVM + encryption setup, look and feel, customization, UHD display scaling, graphics drivers configuration with PRIME, native and Steam Proton gaming, default and extra applications, WINE software, hardware support, performance, responsiveness, some small problems, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Tutorial showing how to configure AppArmor for non-standard editions of Firefox like standalone Dev or Nightly builds in AppArmor-supported Linux distributions, including brief overview of the AppArmor framework, security modes, default and custom rules, profile parsing, fine-tuning behavior, logs and errors, and more| www.dedoimedo.com