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Saturday, 12 March 2022

Making the .cache folder a temporary folder under linux

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 A lot of people complain about the size of the ~/.cache folder and many people ask if the folder can be deleted. The answer is "Yes, w...
Sunday, 17 January 2021

The falacy of the mythical grandma

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(Image courtesy of Wikimedia shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)   There is a very common phenomenon occurr...
Saturday, 16 January 2021

Guide: A safe, clean and easy way to update LinuxMint

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From all the general usage Linux desktop distribution, my favourite one is Linux Mint. In all my set-ups it seems to just work.   However, o...

Is it fair to compare the stability of Debian vs. ArchLinux currency?

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  In other blogs and forums it is not uncommon to read arguments pro or against diverse Linux distributions.   Most of those arguments fail ...
Thursday, 24 September 2020

"Show desktop" on one monitor only, on a Linux Desktop

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I was browsing a reddit group and so a question from someone asking if it was possible to set a shortcut to minimize all the windows in a s...
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