Jay Versluis I’ve splashed out on a Tourbox Elite in translucent black for just under $300 back in 2024. This was literally 50 days before their “new and improved” version came out that supported the iPad. Naturally I wasn’t allowed an exchange because they’re such a “nice” company. This review has been sitting in here as a … Read more
Substance Painter is one of the few applications for which Adobe develop a Linux version. It’s possibly a contractual overhang from the Allegorithmic days. Typically we don’t get access to it through the Creative Cloud app, and only special contract holders can download this version from Adobe. However, Steam lets Linux users either download the … Read more
Distrobox is a fascinating project that lets us run apps made for other distributions right on the one we’re using — a Debian app on Fedora, an RPM inside Ubuntu — without a VM, dual-booting, or a second desktop. Under the hood it uses Podman containers, but not the way Docker uses them: instead of … Read more
We do so much in browsers these days, and it’s super easy to get lost with so many tabs open. Despite the best organisational options modern browsers offer us, I prefer a stand-alone app for certain things. Notion is a good example: I really need for it to be a completely separate item so I … Read more
I’ve just spun up a Vm of AlmaLinux 9 through Cockpit, but to my surprise it didn’t come with a desktop environment installed. It was an auto-download so probably didn’t contain any such components (it would come with GNOME by default). I had to do a little digging and found out how to install KDE, … Read more
I have an exFAT partition on a dual-boot MacBook so both operating system can share data. macOS mounts it by default, but of course Linux would never be that practical. In KDE Plasma’s Dolphin I can click the unmounted partiton and the drive becomes available, but it means an additional step for me I’d like … Read more
Git is great, even for fully-fledged Unreal Engine projects. However, the built-in tool at the bottom right of the editor leaves a LOT to be desired. While it can place a project under version control, it does We can however make it work by doing a few things manually from the command line. Let me … Read more
Funny story: I downloaded Nwiro from Cosmos. I got it as part of a Humble Bundle purchase, not really knowing what it was until recently. I thought it was as easy as download, copy into my project and run. But no. Of course not. That’s because the Cosmos version doesn’t come with pre-compiled binaries. Here’s … Read more