100 Days of LotD | Day 17

28. Oktober 2020 Evgenij 0

You can find the „100 Days of LotD“ mission statement [ here ]. I had to write several emails. A new minor annoyance: In Thunderbird, pop-up windows (like „Insert Image“) always open on the first (as opposed to „primary“) monitor, […]

100 Days of LotD | Day 16: Zoomin‘ in

27. Oktober 2020 Evgenij 0

You can find the „100 Days of LotD“ mission statement [ here ]. Today I decided to try using my Linux laptop for Zoom meetings. In the Discover store, only an unofficial snap package was to be had so I […]

100 Days of LotD | Day 13: Lab Work

24. Oktober 2020 Evgenij 0

You can find the „100 Days of LotD“ mission statement [ here ]. Today I was preparing a rather complex VMware lab which needed both my ESXi and Hyper-V resources. For this, I used my Linux box exactly as I […]

100 Days of LotD | Day 7: A fringe case

18. Oktober 2020 Evgenij 0

You can find the „100 Days of LotD“ mission statement [ here ]. Today I had to accommodate another fringe use case I didn’t mention in the ‚mission statement‘. My wife, who is a translator and an interpreter, sometimes asks […]

100 Days of LotD | Day 2: The Building

13. Oktober 2020 Evgenij 0

You can find the „100 Days of LotD“ mission statement [ here ]. Installing a modern Linux distro on commercial-grade hardware does not pose any real issues, nor had I expected it to. To create a bootable medium, I first […]

100 Days of LotD | Day 1: The Choosing

12. Oktober 2020 Evgenij 0

You can find the „100 Days of LotD“ mission statement [ here ]. The biggest problem with ’switching to Linux‘ is that there are so many of them. The popularity ranking of DistroWatch.com lists a total of 276 distributions, and […]