Category Archives: Linux

Windows 11 is not for me

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Don Watkins

Today I decided to give Windows 11 a try. I downloaded the ‘iso’ from Microsoft onto my Linux laptop. My System76 Darter Pro is an i7 with 16 GB of RAM. I decided to try to run the new operating … Continue reading →

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Free Software is Freedom

Posted on October 17, 2021 by Don Watkins

I’m blogging tonight using my System76 Darter Pro which is now nearly three years old. The laptop came with Pop!_OS installed on it and I kept using that Linux distribution for much of the first two years. Last year I … Continue reading →

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Vostro 1520 Restored with Linux

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Don Watkins

Today when I came home there was a box sitting in the house waiting for me. My wife said it was a computer my brother-in-law had used in his business. She said, “Dave wanted you to have this computer back … Continue reading →

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Are you looking for a password manager?

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Don Watkins

Are you looking for a password manager? Password managers abound and many are open source. Which one will you choose? I was letting a browser store my passwords until an upgrade to my system left my browser based solution wanting. … Continue reading →

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Moving to Mint

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Don Watkins

I’ve been a Linux user for more than twenty years. I started with Red Hat 6.1 in the late 1990’s. Since then I’ve used a number of distributions and have loved the experience and freedom of open source software. My … Continue reading →

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Handbrake to the rescue

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Don Watkins

Recently my son asked me if I could locate a video of him scoring 35 points in one half of a high school basketball game. The game happened about eighteen or nineteen years ago. Fortunately many years ago I transferred … Continue reading →

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Talking about Linux and open source

Posted on May 13, 2020 by Don Watkins

Yesterday I collaborated with long time friend and fellow Linux enthusiast Phil Shapiro. Recently we had been exploring open source solutions for video conferencing. There are two platforms with which we had some experience and those are BigBlueButton and Jitsi. … Continue reading →

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Pandemic is good for Linux

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Don Watkins

A month or so ago after receiving calls from friends that their Windows machines were having troubles and needed attention I thought this is the perfect time to switch to Linux. Apparently I wasn’t the only person thinking that way. … Continue reading →

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Pop!_OS 20.04 Window Tiling

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Don Watkins

One of the really useful and neat features of Pop!_OS 20.04 and what sets it apart from the standard Ubuntu 20.04 release is window tiling. It’s quite amazing and I know that I’m going to find this really useful going … Continue reading →

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Upgrade Day

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Don Watkins

Pop_OS 20.04 was released a couple of days ago and for whatever reason my System76 laptop wouldn’t upgrade to the latest release. I had rebuilt the computer is February after outsmarting myself one day. Learning the hard way is frequently … Continue reading →

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