Using KDE on Windows
Since the end of The Linux Experiment I have started dual booting my laptop, switching between Kubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7 as needed. While this […]
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Enabling Video Thumbnail Previews in Dolphin
Just a quickie here – if you keep video of any kind on your Kubuntu 9.10 system, you may have noticed that the Dolphin file […]
Finally Synching my Blackberry on Linux
Some readers may recall all of the attempts that I’ve made in the past to synchronize my Blackberry with Mozilla’s Thunderbird email and calendar client. […]
Going Linux, Once and for All
With the linux experiment coming to an end, and my Vista PC requiring a reinstall, I decided to take the leap and go all linux […]
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 […]
Reinstalling Linux
Generally, after using a Windows machine for close to a year, it gets bogged down and slow and benefits greatly from a reinstall. After about […]
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 […]
Getting KDE on openSUSE is like playing Jenga
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 […]
GNOME slip ups; a KDE perspective
My beefs with GNOME, from a KDE perspective
KDE is a terrible tease and the reason we can’t have nice things
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 […]
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 […]
Back and ready for action
I’m back from an intensely relaxing and awesome holiday in our nation’s capital, Ottawa. I’d forgotten how close it was in proximity to Quebec – […]
Coming close
The experiment is set to begin in less than 10 days and now is the time to settle on all of those little decisions that still need to be made.
KDE 4.3 vs. Gnome 2.26: Slap fight!
Ding! Let the fight begin. In one corner, we have the only desktop environment I’ve used in Linux – Gnome 2.26, the standard for Ubuntu […]
The Showdown: Fedora 11 vs Mandriva 2009.1
The Final Contenders
Well here we are. After a couple of weeks of research I have finally narrowed down my choice to either Fedora 11 or Mandriva 2009.1 to use during the course of this experiment. The two distros are both very mature and feature rich which makes this choice extraordinarily difficult. To help alleviate some of this I have decided to square them off head to head in a series of different areas. So without further ado let’s start this.
Better than Indy’s own
Hi, sports fans! (That’s right, I’ve decided to start addressing you all with stupid and arbitrary tag lines… please deal with it.) Since Jon has […]