Blast from the Past: Coming to Grips with Reality
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 […]
Gnome
One week, three distributions (Day 6: Linux Mint Debian Edition)
To round out the week I installed the newly released Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Like the other posts I have made I will walk […]
One week, three distributions (Day 4: Ubuntu 10.10)
Continuing where we left off I am now ready to report my first impressions of Ubuntu 10.10. I should start by apologizing a little bit, […]
Restore the default Linux Mint 8 theme and colours
After playing with the GNOME Appearance preferences on my new Mint 8 installation, I managed to completely lose the color scheme, window decorators and other […]
Coming to Grips with Reality
The following is a cautionary tale about putting more trust in the software installed on your system than in your own knowledge. Recently, while preparing […]
Why Linux is great for web development
Linux is great for web development, but not necessarily for the obvious reasons. The reason I find developing websites and server programs much better on […]
Back at Square 1
This morning I reinstalled my Debian system. I began by downloading an ISO for the current Debian Stable build (called Lenny), and installing it with […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
GNOME slip ups; a KDE perspective
My beefs with GNOME, from a KDE perspective
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 […]
The road to GNOME
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 […]
Climate Change
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 […]
Where did my Desktop go?!?!
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. […]
Songbird on Gentoo
For various reasons, Rhythmbox (the default GNOME audio player) returns this wonderful message, which I’m putting off troubleshooting for the time being: rhythmbox: error while […]
Gentoo updates and annoyances
After hearing about the recent MintCast mention of our experiment, I figured it was high time to post an update with what’s gone right and […]
A Pretty New Desktop Theme
This morning I spent some more time messing around with Compiz. I followed this tutorial to add an alternative repository to my sources list that […]