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Enabling remote desktop sharing (VNC) on Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop

May 24, 2021 Tyler B 2

If you’ve ever wanted to access your Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop remotely (and securely!) you may have come to the conclusion that it isn’t as simple […]

Fixing GRUB installation error in Linux Mint 19

July 15, 2018 Tyler B 19

Recently I was installing Linux Mint 19 onto a computer and discovered that the installer consistently failed to setup GRUB correctly. This left the system […]

Enabling remote desktop sharing (VNC) on Linux Mint 19

July 14, 2018 Tyler B 49

There is an updated version of this tutorial here! As of Linux Mint 19 there is no longer a menu option for the old vino-preference […]

Off to a rocky start with Zorin OS

July 2, 2017 Tyler B 0

In my previous post I mentioned that I installed Zorin OS onto an older laptop I had lying around. Since that post went up I […]

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Blast from the Past: Going Linux, Once and for All

December 28, 2016 Jon F 0

This post was originally published on December 23, 2009. The original can be found here. With the linux experiment coming to an end, and my […]

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Blast from the Past: Linux from Scratch: I’ve had it up to here!

December 23, 2016 Jake B 0

This post was originally published on November 27, 2011. The original can be found here. As you may be able to tell from my recent, […]

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Blast from the Past: Linux Saves the Day

December 19, 2016 Phil D 0

This post was originally published on December 23, 2009. The original can be found here. Earlier this week I had an experience where using Linux […]

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Blast from the Past: Phoenix Rising

December 14, 2016 Dana H 0

This post was originally published on December 12, 2009. The original can be found here. As we prepare to bring The Linux Experiment to a […]

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Blast from the Past: Coming to Grips with Reality

December 12, 2016 Jon F 0

This post was originally published on December 8, 2009. The original can be found here. The following is a cautionary tale about putting more trust […]

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Blast from the Past: Top 10 things I have learned since the start of this experiment

December 9, 2016 Tyler B 1

This post was originally published on October 2, 2009. The original can be found here. In a nod to Dave’s classic top ten segment I […]

Stop screen tearing with Nvidia/Intel graphics combo

November 29, 2016 Tyler B 0

Ever since upgrading my laptop to Linux Mint 18 I’ve noticed some pronounced screen tearing happening. Initially I figured this was something I would simply […]

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Removing old Kernels in Ubuntu 16.04/Linux Mint 18

October 25, 2016 Tyler B 3

Recently I’ve noticed that my /boot partition has become full and I’ve even had some new kernel updates fail as a result. It seems the culprit […]

Ubuntu 16.04 VNC woes? Try this!

October 2, 2016 Tyler B 2

You may recall a few years back I made a very similar post about Ubuntu 14.04’s ‘VNC woes’. Well unfortunately it seems things have changed […]

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Fix: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service’ installing kubuntu-desktop

June 5, 2016 Jake B 2

I have an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop installation with Unity and wanted to try KDE, so I ran sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. apt failed with the […]

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Murdering misbehaving applications with xkill

March 5, 2016 Tyler B 1

Have you ever had a window in Linux freeze on you and no matter how many times you tried to close it, it just wouldn’t […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 VNC woes? Try this!

April 28, 2014 Tyler B 2

If, like me, you’ve recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 only to find out that for whatever reason you can no longer VNC to that machine […]

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Change the default sort order in Nautilus

February 9, 2014 Tyler B 3

The default sort order in Nautilus has been changed to sorting alphabetically by name and the option to change this seems to be broken. For […]

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A tale of a gillion installs

January 21, 2014 Greg W 1

Install number one: LMDE 201303.  I was hoping for the best of both worlds, but I got driver issues instead.  LMDE has known ATI proprietary […]

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Screen brightness work around (part 2)

January 19, 2014 Tyler B 0

As mentioned before I am having some issues with my laptop’s hardware and controlling the screen brightness. Previously my work around was to set acpi_backlight=vender […]

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Fix annoying high-pitched sound

November 28, 2013 Tyler B 0

If you’re like me you’ve been suffering through a crazy high-pitched sound emanating from your laptop speakers. Apparently this is a common issue with certain […]

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