I regret switching to Linux, even though I wanted to love it
…When not typing away, he can be found with his nose in a book. Sign in to your XDA account For as long as I can remember, Linux has been considered the…
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I ignored storage discipline in Proxmox until a restore actually mattered
…Proxmox makes it easy to add storage, create directories, attach disks, and start building VMs before you’ve thought through the long-term layout. That freedom is useful, but it also encourages…
Every gaming Linux distro is about to share the same foundation, and it could change everything
Korbin Brown Mar 23, 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…
Game Compressor freed up 300GB on my SSD without deleting a single game
Korbin Brown Aug 13, 2026, 6:00 AM 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 underrated note-taking app solved the problem Notion and OneNote never could
…That works beautifully when I am planning something serious, building a content calendar, or organizing a long-term project. But when I simply want to save a line for an article, jot…
Windows is sabotaging your expensive hardware, and these are the biggest ways how
…Then, there are the likes of Delivery Optimization , Windows Update Medic Service, and various other maintenance schedulers that kick in at the worst possible times. You'll often see random CPU spikes…
Raspberry Pi 5's price hike pushed me toward mini PCs, and now I can't justify going back
…Running Docker for experiments became easy since I no longer needed to look for ARM support. That sounds trivial, but it relieved me of the mental overhead of the workarounds and maintenance…
Every month Windows gets an emergency patch, and I'm running out of reasons to stay
…He closely follows the Windows Insider program and tests new Insider builds to discover upcoming experimental features and upgrades. His past work includes long-term collaborations with reputed publications like Tom's…
I run both Tailscale and WireGuard at home, and here's why you probably should too
Korbin Brown Jul 6, 2026, 1:30 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…
Trying to self-host LLMs made me realize local AI has a friction problem, not a quality problem
…For the longest time, the conversation around local AI models revolved around quality. They were either too slow, too dumb, too small, or too incapable to match what the titans over at…