The Monkey House

Welcome to the general dumping grounds for the development work, gaming and photography (as well as other random musings), of the Dark Blue Monkey. I've been faffing about with computers for almost 40 years, mostly building, rebuilding, overclocking, coding and playing games with them. Occasionally I might do a bit of actual work.

This site is under construction



Recent Posts
January 2026
Maybe installing a development branch wasn't such a good idea....

The 'flavours' of Ubuntu are a sort-of second-class citizen.. Canonical, obviously, want people to enjoy their flagship experience, which is Ubuntu with GNOME, snap and all the other stuff they've built into it. But the 'flavours' of Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and Kubuntu exist because there's a pa...
December 2025
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 mint was that games tended to need a lot of tweaking in order to run properly... Sometimes I needed to update to a new Nvidia driver, sometimes I need...
December 2025
The move is done!

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 k config and apps... It's probably only a matter of time before two config programs...
December 2025
Is this the end of the Linux Mint love affair?

The last blog post was about Wayland, the new/old paradigm for window drawing where the programs are directly connected to the server without having to go through some kind of middleware that was best suited for a use case that never really took off....

The infuriating thing for me was that switch...