Third detailed review of Plasma 6 desktop environment, installed and tested on a laptop with Intel processor and hybrid graphics (integrated plus Nvidia), including botched installation with encryption, successful installation without encryption, problems with Nouveau, proprietary drivers, Wayland and X11 sessions, performance, responsiveness, stability, general behavior, everyday usage, various bugs and issues, other observations, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Long-term usage review and report 2 of the Slimbook Titan laptop, with Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics and Kubuntu 22.04 LTS as the operating system, covering hardware, resolved problem with suspend & resume, performance, noise, battery life, one-time crash, software compatibility including Windows programs through WINE, Windows games through Steam Proton, Logitech G27 steering wheel set, 3D rendering programs, Samba speed, general positive change in overall usability, some other observations, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Tutorial showing how to optimize rendering in Maxwell Render and Maxwell Studio programs in hardware setups with hybrid graphics (integrated and discrete cards), including AMD and Intel processors and Nvidia GPU, Windows and Linux scenarios, rendering invocation through SketchUp Make plugin or directly, Linux PRIME on-demand profile and GPU pinning for the native build and WINE installation, some other tips and tricks, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Enthusiastic article about my success with using the Steam Proton compatibility layer to play Windows-native titles in Linux, covering AMD-, Intel- and Nvidia-based hardware, various complex game titles, import of game settings and saves from Windows, use of HD and UHD graphics, DLCs, mods, performance comparison, some other observations, 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, focusing on applications and games compatibility in Kubuntu 22.04 LTS, including native and WINE programs, plugins and configurations import, Steam gaming via Proton layer, excellent results, some other observations, and more| 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, detailed review of MX Linux MX-21.3 Wildflower Xfce and KDE editions, tested in a triple-boot Windows and Linux setup on a laptop with AMD Ryzen 5 processor, Vega graphics and NVMe storage, covering live session, installation and post-install usage, including session save, look and feel, customization, MX Tools, everyday usage, hardware compatibility, performance, responsiveness, battery life, numerous problems like quirks with partitioning, boot screen brigthness, Wireless network reco...| 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
New tutorial showing to resolve intermittent media playback start resets and AVI (.avi) file double window issues using VLC in the Plasma desktop environment when accessing content on Samba shares by changing the data read prefetch value| www.dedoimedo.com
Tutorial showing how to set up and run ArmA 3 in Linux using Steam Proton compatibility layer, covering graphics resolution, settings and framerate results, DLC and mods, BattlEye compatibility, scenario and data import from Windows, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Tutorial showing how to configure data backup with two encrypted hard disks in Linux, using my Slimbook Titan laptop as a usecase, covering storage consideration, LUKS encryption, crypttab file, auto-mounting via fstab, boot problems and live session troubleshooting, rsync data replication with exclusions, cron scheduling, brief look at various tools and utilities, other observations, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Tutorial showing how to increase the font side in GwenView's sidebar in the Plasma desktop environment| www.dedoimedo.com
Short tutorial showing how to disable grouping by date in the Downloads folder in the Dolphin file manager| www.dedoimedo.com
Short article showing how to configure keyboard backlight options on the Slimbook Titan laptop running Kubuntu 22.04 LTS, covering BIOS features and buggy default implementation, Slimbook RGB Keyboard utility, PPA and manual configuration, pattern, hue and brightness tweaking, and more| www.dedoimedo.com