It has been five weeks since I wiped my NVMe drive and installed Bazzite on my desktop workstation. Why five weeks? I figured a blog post about this would be a good way to wrap up 2025! When I wrote...
Read the post →I’m probably stretching the word “workstation” a little further than I should. I’m talking about the machine I’m typing on right now. It’s my gaming PC, video editing machine, and the place where I sit when I work on blog...
Read the post →You might consider it a stretch to call my gaming PC a workstation. One lazy way to define a workstation could be enterprise server-grade hardware in an office-friendly case, but I’m willing to be more liberal with my labeling. Workstation...
Read the post →Let’s start with the motivating factor that encouraged me to write this blog post today. Then we can go back to the ancient 1990s to figure out how we got here.
Read the post →I admit it. It hasn’t quite been six full months since I put a fresh NVMe into my desktop machine and turned on lvmcache. I am nearly three weeks short of that date as I am writing this sentence, but...
Read the post →I have been using Windows on my 2-in-1 laptop for a little over a month so far. My hope was to be able to skip installing Linux on this machine. I figured I’d be able to mostly treat this thing...
Read the post →I bought an Asus Vivobook Flip 14 2-in-1 laptop last month. It isn’t a speed demon, but with an 8-core Ryzen 7 5700u, 16 GB of RAM, and an NVMe that can push several gigabytes per second, it is definitely...
Read the post →I’ve been running and living with my lvmcache experiment on my desktop for more than a month now. Everything is working out about as well as I had hoped, and that means they’re doing even better than I truly expected....
Read the post →Hello everyone! My name is Pat, and I have been using Linux since 1995. The last Windows machine I had at home was a Cyrix P200 that dual booted Windows 95 and Slackware Linux. Before that I spent many years...
Read the post →The answer you should take from me is that I don’t really know yet. At least, I don’t know just how well it is working because lvmcache is quite difficult to benchmark. The truth is that I’m not all that...
Read the post →I’m not even sure where to begin. The problem I encountered this week has been brewing for years. My desktop is running Ubuntu 18.04. That’s a pretty old release now, and it has finally started getting more difficult to install...
Read the post →Am I excited about the Steam Deck? I’m pretty sure I am! I’m not quite excited enough to order one–gaming on the go just isn’t something I do all that often.
Read the post →I don’t tend to get excited when new versions of Linux distributions are released, but I do try to pay some attention to the distributions that I run. This time, though, I managed to completely miss the release of Ubuntu...
Read the post →I had a large block of free time yesterday, so I decided to make an early upgrade to my laptop to the Ubuntu 14.04 beta. I almost always wait until at least the first release candidate is available, but I...
Read the post →I decided to upgrade my laptop and desktop to Ubuntu 13.10, the Saucy Salamander, this weekend. I don’t run Unity, so I expected things to go pretty smoothly. I’m pretty sure that the operating system on my desktop was installed...
Read the post →I’m a bit bored. I’m sitting here watching my laptop download packages for my slightly early upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04. I figured this was as good a time as any to write about why I run Ubuntu.
Read the post →I’ve been wanting to encrypt the drives in my laptop for quite some time now. I was putting it off for a couple of reasons. I know that the processor in my laptop can’t decrypt fast enough to keep up...
Read the post →I’ve been a very happy user of btrfs-snap for quite a while now. It is great for taking snapshots of a volume at regular intervals. In my opinion, this is a bit wasteful and cumbersome for the root volume. I...
Read the post →I had my first btrfs file system failure this week. The root/home btrfs volume on the Intel X25-M SSD in my laptop became unmountable on Sunday night. It was functioning just fine with no signs of any problems, but it...
Read the post →I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 a little over a week before it was scheduled to be released. I ran into three problems:
Read the post →I’ve been running btrfs on my laptop for a little over six months now. I’m very happy with the current state of the file system and I am finally starting to trust my data to it a little more. I...
Read the post →I have been using the btrfs-snap script for a few weeks and it is working very well except for one small problem. Btrfs seems to have trouble if you remove snapshots too quickly.
Read the post →I’ve been running Ubuntu 10.04 on my Pavilion DV8T since it landed on my desk earlier this year. All the important things work, but there were two minor bits of missing functionality and one annoying bug:
Read the post →I was running btrfs for almost a month before I got around to setting up some automated snapshotting. I was expecting to have to write some scripts of my own, but I luckily I found btrfs-snap. All you have to...
Read the post →It feels like it was a million years ago that I was just playing around with btrfs. I am not playing around any longer–my primary workstation (also known as my laptop) has been running btrfs as its root file system...
Read the post →I just upgraded to a (way too) shiny HP Pavilion dv8t laptop and a pair of inexpensive Sceptre 1080p LCD panels. The laptop seems to work pretty well with Linux. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 with a 2.6.34-rc1 kernel, before the...
Read the post →I'm starting to get impatient. I really want to start running a next-generation file system. I'd like to have easy to manage sub volumes, block level checksums, and RAID-like redundancy at a higher level.
Read the post →I recently upgraded to Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0. That got me thinking that now might be a good time to clean up my local mail folders. All of my mail from the past few years is stored on my IMAP server....
Read the post →Update: Fusecompress has been completely unmaintained for quite a long time.
Read the post →I upgraded my laptop to the 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic Koala beta yesterday. For me, Flash was very broken…
Read the post →The Intel X25 has once again encouraged me to find something very interesting. I've been reading a bit about the X25’s “endurance management” feature. It sounds as though the drive switches to some sort of slower write strategy if the...
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