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...

I originally joined Twitter way back during the Arab Spring. It really felt like the world was turning a corner and everything was getting better for everyone. IT was like, as a collective whole we had come together to celebrate throwing off the horrible yoke of oppression and we were rejoicing w...

Humans are, by all measures available to science, dumb as our cave-dwelling ancestors. We like to think we've dragged ourselves up by our collective bootstraps to some high level of culture and refinement, but, as the saying goes "Society is only one meal away from revolution". We're still too t...

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...

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...

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...

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...