This section covers everything Linux. Here, you will find extensive, step-by-step tutorials on how to install and setup Linux distributions in multi-boot environments, as well as reviews of said distributions tested on real, physical hardware. Moreover, I have also published numerous guides, tips and tricks on how to work on the command line, setup and configure your Linux environment, things like compilation, drivers, file and printer sharing, network connectivity, security practices, and more.
A few select, recommended articles are shown as thumbnail previews just underneath this paragraph. A full listing of published articles is available farther below.
Some nice widgets for your Plasma desktop
Updated October 16, 2019
How to install Gnome extensions in CentOS 8
Updated October 14, 2019
Sneak a Peek - Animated GIF recorder
Updated October 12, 2019
CentOS 8 review - Let's toast to the next ten years
Updated October 5, 2019
Cairo Dock review - The dock is in the detail
Updated October 2, 2019
Essential tweaks after Manjaro (Plasma) installation
Updated September 28, 2019
How to make the Plasma desktop look like Unity
Updated September 27, 2019
How to enable Broadcom Wireless on Manjaro
Updated September 13, 2019
How to make persistent changes in GRUB2 in Fedora
Updated September 5, 2019
Xfce 4.14 review - Holding out for a hero
Updated August 31, 2019
Plasma desktop with global menu, app title and panel buttons
Updated August 26, 2019
Manjaro 18.0.4 Illyria Xfce review - Nice but somewhat crude
Updated August 18, 2019
Fedora 29 to 30 upgrade - How it went
Updated August 17, 2019
Updated August 14, 2019
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 10
Updated August 1, 2019
Linux super-duper admin tools: health-check
Updated July 17, 2019
Manjaro 18.0.4 Illyria Plasma review - Genius in disguise
Updated July 13, 2019
How to make the Plasma desktop look like a Mac
Updated July 12, 2019
OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 - A dream come untrue
Updated July 10, 2019
How to install Nvidia drivers in Fedora 30 guide
Updated July 8, 2019
Geany text editor - a sort of genie
Updated July 7, 2019
Lubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo - Casus vitae
Updated June 29, 2019
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 9
Updated June 28, 2019
Plasma 5.16 review - A tidal wave of goodness
Updated June 26, 2019
Essential Ubuntu MATE tweaks and configurations
Updated June 21, 2019
Fedora 30 test on laptop with Nvidia - Back in 2010
Updated June 19, 2019
Dstat monitoring tool review & tutorial
Updated June 8, 2019
Make Fedora 30 fun and productive after installation
Updated June 5, 2019
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 8
Updated June 3, 2019
Ubuntu MATE 19.04 Disco Dingo - Order and chaos
Updated June 1, 2019
Unity screen brightness fix for Ubuntu 18.04
Updated May 25, 2019
Linux VPN plugin failed error - What now?
Updated May 24, 2019
Fedora 30 Workstation review - Smarter, faster and buggier
Updated May 22, 2019
How to install Mono or dotNET45 on Linux - Tutorial
Updated May 20, 2019
Kubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo - Rather solid
Updated May 15, 2019
Screen brightness and fan control fixes for Asus eeePC
Updated May 6, 2019
Xubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo - A dawn of a renaissance?
Updated May 3, 2019
Plasma KSysGuard - System monitor galore
Updated May 1, 2019
How to uninstall WINE applications
Updated April 29, 2019
Ultrabook & Bionic - Running Plasma
Updated April 24, 2019
Solus 4.0 Fortitude Budgie review - Not bad, kind of unique
Updated April 15, 2019
MX Linux MX-18 & 10-year-old Nvidia-powered laptop
Updated April 13, 2019
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 7
Updated April 10, 2019
KDE Cantor - Sing me some math
Updated April 5, 2019
Shell shock? No, ShellCheck! Find bugs in your scripts.
Updated April 3, 2019
MX Linux MX-18 & 10-year-old EeePC netbook - Fantastic
Updated April 1, 2019
Ultrabook & Bionic - Running Unity
Updated March 30, 2019
Updated March 27, 2019
Home directory backup - The quick 'n' dirty guide
Updated March 25, 2019
From Trusty to Bionic - my Ultrabook story
Updated March 22, 2019
KDE neon 5.15 review - Speed bumps ahead
Updated March 20, 2019
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 6
Updated March 17, 2019
GSConnect - Say Gee-es, and connect you Android to Gnome
Updated March 15, 2019
Plasma 5.15 review - Pro momentum
Updated March 14, 2019
10-year-old eeePC netbook - running Plasma
Updated March 11, 2019
Zorin OS 12.4 Core review - Surprisingly good
Updated March 6, 2019
Plasma desktop kstart: cannot connect to X server - What now?
Updated March 4, 2019
10-year-old eeePC netbook - with Xubuntu Bionic
Updated March 2, 2019
Plasma menu no longer updating? Solution.
Updated February 23, 2019
Xfce apps – In the land of Tux, where the shadows lie
Updated February 16, 2019
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 5
Updated February 7, 2019
MX Tools revisited - A Swiss Army knife of penguins
Updated February 1, 2019
Updated January 30, 2019
Flameshot – A shot in the dark
Updated January 25, 2019
Plasma ergonomics - Lessons in life
Updated January 16, 2019
MX Linux MX-18 Continuum - Time x Space x Fun
Updated January 14, 2019
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 4
Updated January 11, 2019
Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa - Adrift
Updated January 9, 2019
Fedora 29 - Make perfect after installation
Updated January 2, 2019
And the best distro of 2018 is ...
Updated December 31, 2018
WINE applications on HD displays - Better looks
Updated December 29, 2018
Plasma secrets: Make Kate more productive
Updated December 26, 2018
Updated December 24, 2018
How to uninstall extensions in Gnome 3
Updated December 22, 2018
Chkrootkit Linux/Ebury message - What now?
Updated December 19, 2018
Best KDE/Plasma distro of 2018
Updated December 15, 2018
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 3
Updated December 14, 2018
Fedora 29, second test - Old laptop & Nvidia graphics
Updated December 12, 2018
Rescue your Linux with Elinks text browser
Updated December 10, 2018
Updated December 5, 2018
Moving up the ladder - Fedora 29 upgrade
Updated December 1, 2018
Check what's taking your disk space in Linux with ncdu
Updated November 30, 2018
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 2
Updated November 28, 2018
Kubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish - Quite all right
Updated November 26, 2018
Updated November 24, 2018
Plasma secrets: save session in Kate
Updated November 21, 2018
KDE neon upgrade - From 16.04 to 18.04
Updated November 19, 2018
Ubuntu MATE 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish - Reasonable-ish
Updated November 16, 2018
How to edit themes in Linux Mint Cinnamon - Tutorial
Updated November 14, 2018
Ubuntu & Deja Dup - Get up, backup
Updated November 2, 2018
Xubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish - Super green?
Updated October 31, 2018
Updated October 29, 2018
Slimbook & Kubuntu - Combat Report 1
Updated October 24, 2018
Updated October 15, 2018
OpenSUSE & already mounted or mount point busy error
Updated October 13, 2018
Plasma secrets: Make the desktop remember window position
Updated October 8, 2018
I want to talk to the (Font) Manager
Updated September 24, 2018
Updated September 22, 2018
Linux - The beginning of the end
Updated September 21, 2018
Fedora be pretty - The ultimate customization guide
Updated September 19, 2018
Ubuntu refuses to reboot - what now?
Updated September 17, 2018
Plasma desktop & HD scaling tutorial
Updated September 15, 2018
Updated September 12, 2018
Slimbook Pro2 + Kubuntu 18.04 - Superb match
Updated September 10, 2018
Taming Gnome 3 - theming and scheming
Updated September 1, 2018
Updated August 31, 2018
GeckoLinux 150 Static Plasma review - Not quite
Updated August 25, 2018
Robolinux 9.3 Raptor - Bird of prey?
Updated August 20, 2018
Dev nonsense: netstat and ifconfig
Updated August 18, 2018
Legacy OS 2017 - Ghost of Linux past
Updated August 13, 2018
Ubuntu MATE - Pimp your desktop to perfection
Updated July 15, 2018
CentOS & Flatpak - Are we there yet?
Updated July 13, 2018
Linux Mint 19 Tara - Tara Cognita
Updated July 9, 2018
Security nonsense: KDE Dolphin does not run as root - Fix
Updated July 7, 2018
Fedora 28 KDE - Call the doctor, it's not feeling well
Updated July 6, 2018
Typemock Isolator++ review - To Kill a Mocking Code
Updated July 2, 2018
Cinnamon Icing ... task manager - Ice Ice Desktop
Updated July 1, 2018
Xfce dock & global menu - Nice and elegant
Updated June 29, 2018
Winepak – Abstraction done (almost) right
Updated June 27, 2018
OpenSUSE Leap 15 Plasma - Way too buggy, me sad
Updated June 22, 2018
Upgraded Ubuntu 18.04 suddenly boots slowly? Read this.
Updated June 20, 2018
Kubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver upgrades - Results!
Updated June 18, 2018
Gnome 3.28 review - Minimalism gone wrong
Updated June 16, 2018
CentOS 7.4 & kernel 4.x - Worth the risk?
Updated June 13, 2018
How to recover a completely dead Plasma desktop
Updated June 9, 2018
Plasma Got Tricks – I like big tricks and I cannot lie
Updated June 6, 2018
Fedora 28 - Improvements drowned in slowness
Updated June 4, 2018
CentOS 7.4 & Realtek Wireless issues
Updated June 2, 2018
Ubuntu 18.04 + Unity - the desktop you always needed
Updated June 1, 2018
Software Boutique - Linux stuff, 100% discount
Updated May 28, 2018
Plasma 5.13 - Amazing Tux, How Sweet Plasma
Updated May 26, 2018
MX Tools - A year later, the toolbox got better
Updated May 25, 2018
Linux Mint tools - That which makes the distro unique
Updated May 23, 2018
Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver - Canonical giveth, Canonical taketh
Updated May 21, 2018
Linux fragmentation - The Sum of All Egos
Updated May 18, 2018
Xubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver - Middle ground
Updated May 16, 2018
The Nifty Dozen: 12 cool features in Ubuntu MATE
Updated May 14, 2018
Best Linux applications (2018)
Updated May 12, 2018
Ubuntu MATE 18.04 Bionic Beaver - Medium-well
Updated May 7, 2018
Ubuntu 18.04 - Samba shares problem fix
Updated May 5, 2018
Kubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver - Long-term uncertainty
Updated April 30, 2018
Timeshift review - Let's do the time warp again
Updated April 27, 2018
Plasma widgets - Beltway Bandit Unlimited
Updated April 23, 2018
Ubuntu 18.04 Beta - The good, the bad and mostly ugly
Updated April 16, 2018
Want to make Ubuntu look like Windows 10?
Updated April 15, 2018
Antergos 18.3 Gnome - Regression celebration
Updated April 9, 2018
CentOS 7.4 upgrade - Still got it
Updated April 7, 2018
Xubuntu Zesty Aardvark upgrade
Updated April 6, 2018
Diplomatic Munity - Lethal Gnome 2
Updated April 4, 2018
Making Linux love my LG RD510 Nvidia-powered laptop
Updated April 2, 2018
Manjaro 17.1.6 Hakoila Xfce - Whither goest thou?
Updated March 31, 2018
Krita – Ars longa, vita brevis?
Updated March 28, 2018
Updated March 26, 2018
GRUB Customizer - GRUB configuration with style
Updated March 23, 2018
The Magnificent Seven unique Linux projects
Updated March 21, 2018
Manjaro 17.1.6 Hakoila Plasma - A rollercoaster of Tux
Updated March 19, 2018
Ebony and Ivory, icons together in perfect harmony
Updated March 17, 2018
Updated March 16, 2018
MATE 1.20 review - Are you all right, mate?
Updated March 14, 2018
Plasma Mobile - A grain of hope in a sandstorm of despair
Updated March 12, 2018
WINE 3.0 - Better but not good enough
Updated March 7, 2018
Updated March 3, 2018
IU not UI – Want a great desktop? Use the brain.
Updated February 26, 2018
KDE neon 5.12 review - Living on the edge
Updated February 21, 2018
KaOS 2017.11 review - Chaotic and unfriendly
Updated February 19, 2018
Amazon Linux 2 - Who nicked my cheese?
Updated February 17, 2018
Plasma – The road to perfection is paved with bugs
Updated February 16, 2018
MX Linux MX-17 Horizon - Second test, top notch
Updated February 9, 2018
Plasma 5.12 – Long Term Sweetness?
Updated January 27, 2018
Plasma icons-only task manager: Multiple app versions
Updated January 22, 2018
MX Linux MX-17 Horizon - Shaping up beautifully
Updated January 13, 2018
Kubuntu 17.10 upgrade - Should you?
Updated January 10, 2018
How to access iPhone (6s) with iOS 11 in Linux
Updated January 8, 2018
Older articles
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