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...
I remember switching to Linux full time in about 2003 when XP SP2 came out. I had been thinking about it for a while, but the update that switched on the then badly configured firewall was the one that pushed me over the edge.
Since then I have always had a Windows installation on my main home com...
I was planning on testing KDE as my only desktop environment for two months. It hasn't even been one month and I just had to give up. Everything was just too difficult to do in KDE. I tried Kubuntu and Fedora KDE spin, but mostly it was just KDE problems.
So I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my desktop...
I've now been using Kubuntu for almost a week and I thought I would write down some thoughts about the experience. I didn't get very far with my kdevelop experiment. It seemed ok, but there was too much stuff missing that I use in my normal workflow. So I reverted back to geany and aptana.
My comp...
I have been switching back and forth between Unity, Gnome-shell and cinnamon for over a year now, trying to find the one I like best.
Unity, has actually become quite ok with the latest versions. I think it's a bit too mac fanboy for my taste, but I could see myself using it as a default DE. The p...
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 Also gnome-panel is one of the most outdated horrible pieces of software...