Welcome to my blog. I'm trying to post things whenever I get inspired to write something. Sometimes it's more often, and sometimes not so much. The subject can vary quite a lot, but it tends to be mostly about tech.
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When I switched to Linux full time back in 2004 for desktop use, I chose my then favourite distro, Debian. Soon after this the first vesion of Ubuntu was released. At the time Ubuntu combined a much needed focus on getting things to work with the wonders of Debians apt package manager. I started gra...
When I installed Arch about a week ago I instinctively installed Gnome as my desktop enviroment. I stared using gnome about 10 years ago and have used it on and off since then. And I'm one of the people who liked the change to gnome-shell, at least the idea of it. There is a lot of really good ideas...
As I now officially have started my 2 month test of KDE/kubuntu I thought I'd get started on Kontact, KDE:s calendar/contact/mail suite. In many respects it is very similar to Evolution, Gnomes version of the same thing.
Theoretically Kontact seems to be a lot more integraded and up to date, Evolu...
When I found out about Ubuntus plans to replace Gnome 2 with Unity as the main Ubuntu desktop I was at first sceptical about how well it would work as a main desktop, but at the same time I was excited because of the potential. Also gnome-panel is one of the most outdated horrible pieces of software...