Linux Mint, Post Install

So you’ve downloaded an Linux Mint, or other Ubuntu variants ISO file, put it on some flash-media, you’ve booted to that media and performed a dual-boot or full-disk install. You’ve boot to Linux, now what? Turn On The Firewall The first thing you should do is turn on the firewall. This is not really crucial…

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Install Windows 11 On Any Computer

Windows 11 has very restrictive hardware requirements . These requitements are not really necessary for best performance but to encourage the use of new security features on newer hardware. As I demonstrated back in July, Windows 11 runs great on older hardware. This demonstration is done using the Windows 11 Insider build. You must be…

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Windows 11 Release Date Announce

Microsoft is announcing that Windows 11 will be released on October 5th. Any PC with a Windows 10 is eligible for this free upgrade , or on new hardware that ships with Windows 11 pre-loaded. The upgrade will be a phased rollout with new eligible devices being first. You can install Windows 11 on any…

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Windows App Installer

Windows 11 has a native software manager called  Windows App Installer or winget. Just like in Linux you can install applications directly from the Command Prompt. No need find the correct website, find the download link, download the app, maybe extract the package from a zip-file and then run the installer. Just run a simple…

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WSL No Beta Required

You can run Linux Command applications on your Windows 10 computer. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables. In other words, you can run Linux applications on you computer without installing Linux. Sorry, you will be able to run text based applications only until the graphical apps feature comes in Windows…

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Run Linux On Windows

The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a Linux environment — including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications — directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dualboot setup. This is not particularly useful for the casual user who has no interest in playing with the commandline but soon…

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Install Linux Apps w/ Terminal

The Linux terminal (similar to Command Prompt on Windows) is very powerful. It can do anything that can be done in the GUI (graphical user interface) and more. One of the operations that can be done is installing software. This can also be done from the GUI but not in all cases. To install an…

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Which Linux Distro Is Best

There is only one Windows operating system Microsoft Windows 10 soon 11. There is only one Mac OS, OS10. That said why are there so many Linux versions out there? The answer is, there is only one company called Apple and one company named Microsoft. Linux is an open-source OS. There are approximately 16,000 developers…

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Windows 365, Is it for you?

On July 14th Microsoft released a new product, Windows 365, a cloud a web service that provides access to a Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers that can be accessed using any kind of device. The cloud application has all of the resources so you don’t have to have a powerful computer to run it….

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Linux Turns Thirty Years Old

Linux has turn 30. In those thirty years it has become the most used operating system in, servers, phones, notepad type computers, cars and internet connected things of all types. It has not become very popular as a desktop computer operating system, only used by scientist, and computer enthusiast. The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, Unix-like operating…

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