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
Fifteen years ago, a hosting pro told me to patch my packages and never reboot. He was half right — and the wrong half involves the kernel, deceptive version numbers, and a blind spot in Plesk’s automatic updates. A Saturday morning investigation on my own server, epilogue included.
F11 is just a convention — plenty of apps never implement it. On KDE Plasma, KWin can force any window into full screen from the outside: Alt+F3, an unbound shortcut worth binding, and Window Rules.
Fedora already ships the Google Chrome repository — disabled. One dnf5 command enables it. Plus: the dnf4 syntax trap in older guides, and why the manual RPM route gets updates after all.
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
Wrap is a super useful 3D tool that once was known as the Russian 3D Scanner. I’ve always wanted to install it on my Fedora machine since it has a native Linux binary for download. My first attempt failed, but using the following packages, I got it working on both Fedora 42 and Ubuntu (via … Read more
Frequently a harmless looking Fedora update breaks vital functionality. It’s part of the “fun” working with oh so stable and reliable Linux Desktop distributions… or is it? Regardless, we may from time to time have to check which exact package in the previous update broke some functionality, and of course people like me have no … Read more
