Microsoft just made Command Prompt worth using, and it's about time
Korbin Brown Apr 7, 2026, 2:30 PM EDT Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the…
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I stopped recommending most Linux desktops, and here's what I tell people to use instead
Korbin Brown Apr 20, 2026, 12:30 PM EDT Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the…
This $200 Android gaming handheld is the ultimate retro hit with Linux
…Running Linux changed the game The best of both worlds I love Batocera. I have a mini PC in the living room with an AMD Ryzen processor and the Linux distro for…
Ubuntu 26.04 is polished, but Fedora 44 asked less from me out of the box
…Sign in to your XDA account Installing two major Linux releases on the same machine is one of the fastest ways to remind yourself that “Linux desktop” is not one single thing…
I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
…Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes Android compatible Yes See at Apple App Store See at Google Play Store See at Home Assistant
I optimized Proxmox's defaults and cut my home lab energy costs without sacrificing speed
…specs won’t result in compatibility issues if you have this CPU type equipped. But for folks who want the maximum performance in their modern Linux or Windows virtual machines, switching to…
I stopped using motion sensors after my smart home learned to read my PC's state
…Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes Android compatible Yes See at Apple App Store See at Google Play Store See at Home Assistant
Your Proxmox 8 server stops getting security updates in August, and upgrading to PVE 9 isn't straightforward
…Sign in to your XDA account Just like typical distros, virtualization platforms receive major updates every so often to add new features, bug fixes, and security patches to your home lab. Proxmox…
I change these 5 storage settings on every new PC build, and they prevent headaches later
…Users that bought drives with the day 0 firmware and didn't update their drives would be susceptible to this kind of bug, and it's not just Samsung drives. Multiple Phison…
SteamOS couldn’t revive my old GPU, so I went with this non-Bazzite distro instead
…In fact, my attempts at transforming my GTX 1080 into a capable Steam machine led me through a maze of gaming-centric distributions, with each Linux flavor causing some weird issue or…