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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
My beefs with GNOME, from a KDE perspective
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
In the process of migrating to KDE as my desktop environment (selected as I have no experience with the newest versions, and I want an […]
As you know we are all going to be transitioning from our current desktop environment (DEs) to something new. I did a bit of quick […]
One of my big griefs with Mint was that the sound was far too quiet. I assumed this was some sort of hardware compatibility issue. […]
I’d just like to wish a happy, safe, and food-filled Thanksgiving to all of our Canadian readers out there. Enjoy yourselves – go forth and […]
Here at The Linux Experiment we are all about shaking things up. After all, we have committed to using Linux for four whole months just […]
One of the articles Tyler passed me this morning was a brief post on three problems with Gentoo by Dion Moult. There are a few […]
My desktop used to have icons… And when I right-clicked on it, a fancy little menu came up that let me do things to it. […]
Here’s another fun little tidbit – today I tried to use OpenOffice.org Writer seriously for the first time, and realized rather quickly that I was […]
The first podcast from the guys at The Linux Experiment. It’s our pilot episode, so please bear with us on the length and the quality. We’re still learning how to use the Tux!