I've recently taken the plunge and installed Wordpress for someone to share their stories. I won't say who it is, to protect her anonymity, but if she's reading this, she'll know I'm referring to her :)

It made me realise just how long I've avoided Wordpress, as I've always felt it was a bit too...

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...

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...

I've been using *nix operating systems since 1992 and trusty old X11 has been a consistent friend throughout all of my adventures in it.

In case you're wondering what the hell I'm on about, Unix follows a slightly different path than Windows when it comes to drawing windows on the screen. Uni...

The history of the correct steps for the Microsoft operating systems for the PC (in my opinion) goes

DOS->Windows 95->Windows 98->Windows 2000->Windows 7

All the other steps like ME, Vista, 8 are all wild mis-steps which are best forgotten (in my humble opinion of course). But from this list yo...

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. Search any Linux forum and mor...

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 in the BIOS and then rebooting from the USB stick.... A desktop appears with "Install Linux...