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Linux-related stuff

It’s all in the drivers…

So after a day of pouring due to a journey of to Scotland to see my best friend, I came back to continue testing Kubuntu. My biggest problem with Linux Mint was that games tended to need a lot of…

The move to Kubuntu….

Well it’s finally happened. Running KDE on mint has been pretty damn good… I’ve had no crashes and games just seem to work.. But it’s been irking me that the menus are full of mint config and apps plus also…

The pain of NVidia on Linux

Gaming on Linux, thanks to the Wine project and Steam are now easier than ever. To install Linux on a laptop is just a simple case of writing the OS onto a thumb drive, turning off the accursed Secure Boot…

Is Nouveau finally better than Nvidia’s own drivers?

For years, Nvidia has produced second-rate Linux drivers. They cause problems with SecureBoot, they don’t work with multiple monitors, they flicker, they don’t manage framebuffers properly, they hang for no reason… The list of problems people have had are endless.…

Virtual 5.1 or 7.1 surround on Linux

So, what a lot of people don’t realise is that when they buy those snazzy 5.1 or 7.1 surround gaming headphones, they’re not actually buying headphones with 6 or 8 tiny little speakers in them. What they’re actually buying is…

Is Linux in its difficult teen years?

Assuming you were lucky and had only jumped from one good Microsoft Desktop OS to the next good Microsoft Desktop OS, I reckon your upgrade path would have gone: DOS3.2->DOS6.22->Windows 95c->Windows 98 SE->Windows 2000->Windows 7 All the other steps like…

Terraria Server!

So, we’ve been playing Terraria as a family for a little while… Or at least I have with the kids. I’ve always liked Terraria, but I reach a point where I get bored. Having the kids around makes it a…