Linux

Arch Linux Printer Install

Friday, January 8, 2021

Introduction I’m glutton for punishment. A couple months ago I took my stable and user friendly Ubuntu Linux install and replaced it with Arch Linux. Why? Please see the first sentence. Since then it’s been running really well. There’s a manual step to update things like Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Visual Studio Code because they come from the Arch User Repository (AUR). Today when I was updating Microsoft Edge I lost all my open tabs.…more

Build 2020 Part 2

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Microsoft Build Conference 2020 Oh My! I totally forgot my favorite parts of Build in my last blog post. Read on to learn more. WSL2 WSL2 is part of Windows 10 v2004 that came out this month. With it comes a full fledged Linux kernel. It’s amazing and fast. In the Linux file system you’ll see speed improvements of 60%. But that’s not all. At Build they announced that GPU pass through, DirectX 12 on WSL, and most importantly Linux GUI is coming this year to WSL!…more

Intel NUC 10

Sunday, May 3, 2020

I have been using an old Gigabyte Brix computer for about 7 years as a secondary computer. Mostly I use it on my Twitch stream to keep track of the chat. It does the job, but if I tried to do too many things at once with it, it would bog down and run really slow. It maxed out at 16GB of RAM and I had a 256GB mSATA drive in it.…more

Custom WSL Image

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Windows Subsystem for Linux (also known as WSL) is a system where you can run a Linux distribution inside Windows. This is great in that you can run any command line application in Windows. Version 1 of WSL did this using a translation layer between the Linux system and the Windows side. Version 2, which is part of version 2004 of Windows 10, uses an actual Linux kernel to do the work.…more

Printer Install

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

I have been playing with a few different distributions of Linux for my secondary machine. I have been on Ubuntu for a while and yesterday I installed Arch Linux. Today, I installed Linux Mint. Overall I really like the desktop environment that it comes with. It seems as polished as Ubuntu. Tonight I thought I would try installing my network printer to see how hard it is to install. I went to System Settings and selected Printers.…more