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Distro hopping: curtains for Manjaro Linux
The time has come to wrap things up with Manjaro and hop on to the next distribution to try out. So here are some final […]
Guinea Pigs
Distro hopping: adventures in installing software from the AUR (from within Manjaro)
Manjaro Linux allows you to take advantage of its Arch Linux background and search for software from within the Arch User Repository (AUR). This is […]
Distro hopping: round two with Manjaro Linux
While looking around for different distributions to try I stumbled across Manjaro Linux and having never used it before decided that this should be the […]
Distro hopping: Finishing up with elementary OS
I’ve been using elementary OS since I started this little distro hopping adventure and while I have enjoyed my time with this sleek and speedy […]
Archive your IMAP e-mail offline in Thunderbird
Thunderbird is an excellent e-mail client and has built in e-mail archiving, however one thing that it doesn’t do intuitively is an offline archive. Here’s […]
Distro hopping: Import music stored on NAS into Music
So you’re running elementary OS and want to access the music files you have stored on a Network-attached-storage device within the Music program. Unfortunately while […]
KWLUG: Swapping Laptop Drives, Helping New Users (2015-09)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Swapping Laptop Drives, Helping New Users published on September […]
KWLUG: git (2015-08)
This is a podcast and video presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of git published on August 10th 2015. You […]
KWLUG: Docker (2015-02)
This is a podcast and video presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Docker published on February 2nd 2015. You […]
Do you want to write for The Linux Experiment?
Are you a Linux user? Thinking about trying your own Linux experiment? Have you ever come across something broken or annoying and figured out a […]
Distro hopping: how to install Plex Home Theater on elementary OS
Plex is great. It is a very easy to use cross-platform program that lets you view and watch your own personal media almost anywhere. The […]
Distro hopping: tweaking elementary OS
So from my last post you’ll know that I ran into a couple of issues that I’ve since been able to address. Default browser Midori […]
Distro hopping: first stop elementary OS
Ah elementary OS, the distribution that looks so clean, so polished and well… so Apple-esque. I’ve never really played around too much with eOS, other than […]
A distro hopping experiment
Over the last little while I’ve become quite comfortable using a single distribution, Linux Mint, for my day-to-day needs. While this has obviously allowed the […]
CoreGTK 3.10.1 Released!
The next version of CoreGTK, version 3.10.1, has been tagged for release today. Highlights for this release: Added some missing (varargs) GTK+ functions. This makes […]
CoreGTK 3.10.0 Released!
The next version of CoreGTK, version 3.10.0, has been tagged for release today. Highlights for this release: Move from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 Prefer […]
Taking a look at some Linux e-mail clients
Many people now use a browser based solution, like Gmail, for all of their e-mail needs however there are still plenty of reasons why someone […]
Big distributions, little RAM 8
It’s been a while but once again here is the latest instalment of the series of posts where I install the major, full desktop, distributions […]
CoreGTK now supports GTK+ 3 and is built from GObject Introspection
It has been quite a while since the first release of CoreGTK back in August 2014 and in that time I’ve received a lot of […]
Adding GTK+ 3 support and building CoreGTK using GObject Introspection
It has been a while since I made any mention of my side project CoreGTK. I’m sure many people can relate that with life generally […]