Happy Ubuntu Day
Oh come on, everyone else is doing it. Love it or hate it Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution to date. While we at […]
Month: October 2009
Quick fix: Compiz on Gentoo, resolving text corruption in terminal
This will be a brief reference post mostly for my own benefit, but a good fix for an issue where Compiz shows black boxes or […]
Interesting Linux article
I stumbled across a very interesting post linked off of Digg, which I browse on a fairly regular basis. In it, the author attempts to […]
Flash problems in Firefox
I mentioned in the podcast that I was having problems viewing Flash stuff in Firefox and I blamed it on KDE. I may have jumped […]
The Linux Experiment Podcast #2: What the Hell [Desktop Environments]?!
The second podcast from the guys at The Linux Experiment. In this episode we discuss our experiences with switching desktop environments.
FTP Trials
I use FTP for a lot of things, mostly related to website administration. On Windows, my client of choice is WinSCP. It has this great […]
Learning to live with XFCE
There’s no doubt that when I initially switched from GNOME to XFCE, I was pretty angry. But hey, you can’t stay mad forever – In […]
KDE on Gentoo: slightly less inflammatory but still difficult
After the shitstorm that was Dana’s post about KDE, I figured I’d go into more details about how my day to day use is going. […]
Miscoloured PNGs: Firefox 3.5.4 Fails It Again
The Situation: A while back I decided to see if I could install Firefox 3.5.4, because I like to live at the bleeding edge. I […]
Taking Wine for a spin
Wine, or W.I.N.E. Is Not an Emulator, is a set of compatibility libraries that allow some Windows applications to run pseudo naively on Linux by […]
KDE: [insert poorly worded and derogatory comment here]
Editor’s note: This, as everything we write on The Linux Experiment, is an opinion piece. I fully recognize that some people may be quite happy […]
Podcast Feedback
Feel like being heard? Submit your questions, comments, rants and more to feedback@thelinuxexperiment.com and we might just include you in the next podcast 😉 If […]
Tips & Tricks for Fedora (and others!)
I honestly can’t remember how I stumbled across this website but there is a lot of useful information there. Rather than go through the 14 […]
OH GOD WHAT THE HELL LINUX!!!11
Well, again, it’s been a little while since my last post. I hope you all enjoyed the podcast that we put out the week before […]
Getting KDE on openSUSE is like playing Jenga
As part of our experiment, everyone is required to try a different desktop manager for two weeks. I chose KDE, since I’ve been using GNOME […]
GNOME slip ups; a KDE perspective
My beefs with GNOME, from a KDE perspective
KDE is a terrible tease and the reason we can’t have nice things
Last night I installed KDE and I was absolutely thrilled. For starters, it has built in widgets, which I absolutely love (when they work, that […]
GUI Failure
Now that I’m running the Testing repositories, I actually get regular updates. Today, there were 15 available for my system. However, when I started the […]
XFCE: A Bitch Session
After a full day of using XFCE as my new desktop environment, I have just a few complaints, handily summarized in the following ordered list: […]
Testing out Testing
With everybody switching up their desktop environments this week, I decided that I’d take a shot at installing XFCE on my system. My initial research […]