The KDE Experiment
Our friend Nick has put together this cool playlist of his experiences trying out KDE and its applications. Definitely worth a watch! Check out what […]
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Blast from the Past: Getting KDE on openSUSE is like playing Jenga
This post was originally published on October 16, 2009. The original can be found here. As part of our experiment, everyone is required to try a […]
Blast from the Past: Going Linux, Once and for All
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 […]
Fix: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service’ installing kubuntu-desktop
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 […]
My Initial Thoughts/Experiences with ArchLinux
Hello again everyone! By this point, I have successfully installed ArchLinux, as well as KDE, and various other everyday applications necessary for my desktop. Aside […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part VII: Dragon Player
Rounding out this little series I took a look at KDE’s video player of choice: Dragon Player. Dragon Player For those of you familiar with […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part VI: Calligra Suite
LibreOffice? Pfft. OpenOffice? Blah. KOffice? Dead for a while now. Calligra Suite? Now we’re talking! Calligra Suite You may be a bit confused as to […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part V: Kopete
What does KDE offer for instant communication with your co-workers and friends? Kopete steps up to be your all-in-one IM solution. Kopete Kopete provides a […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part IV: Amarok
Ready to rock out with KDE’s premier music management application? Let’s rediscover our music with Amarok. Amarok I have to start by first admitting that I’ve actually […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part III: KTorrent
Welcome to another edition of The apps of KDE 4.10. This time around I’m going to be touching on the KDE BitTorrent client KTorrent. KTorrent […]
The apps of KDE 4.10 Part I: Rekonq
It’s been a while since I’ve used KDE, however with the recent rapid (and not always welcome) changes going on in the other two main […]
Linux From Scratch: We Have Lift-off…
Hi Everyone, Now that I have a relatively stable environment, I just wanted to write an update of how things went, and some issues that […]
Closed source AMD/ATI drivers, wireless networking and Flash in Gentoo
Graphics Drivers Continuing where I left off in my previous posts I now had a somewhat working desktop but a few things still had to […]
KDE4, LFS: Make GTK Applications Look Like QT4 Applications
Do your GTK applications (i.e. Firefox) look like something designed in the 90’s in KDE? I think I can help you. I installed the latest […]
LFS, pre-KDE: Errors Compiling qca-2.0.3
If you’re going through the Beyond Linux From Scratch guide, and run into this error while compiling qca-2.0.3 (and I assume many other versions of […]
How to enable reboot/shutdown in KDE on Gentoo
Yeah… apparently the ability to restart or shutdown your system using a normal user account from within KDE SC is not something that is installed […]
Gentoo (A.K.A. “Compiling!”)
For this version of the experiment I have chosen to try my hand at installing Gentoo. Gentoo, for those who don’t know, or who weren’t […]
One week, three distributions (Day 2: Kubuntu 10.10)
As noted in my previous post I have decided to try out a mini experiment wherein I test out three recently released distributions (Kubuntu 10.10, […]
Trying out the Chakra Project
After a little bit of pressure from the people responding to my previous post (My search for the best KDE Linux distribution), I have finally […]
My search for the best KDE Linux distribution
As some of you already know, I am a big fan of the KDE desktop environment (or KDE Workspaces or whatever they’re calling it these […]