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Month: February 2023

Sometimes a newer computer isn’t better

Posted on February 22, 2023

Most of the time a newer computer *is* better Conventional wisdom dictates the newer a computer is, the better the computer is. This bit of advice generally holds true comparing an earlier…

If I was building a new Media Centre

Posted on February 17, 2023

I could cut corners, but… This evening I went through the exercise of thinking about the parts I would use if I was building a brand new computer to serve as our…

Updating Discord on Xubuntu

Posted on February 16, 2023

Discord is one of those applications that is a PITA (Pain In The Acetabulum). The problem is that updating Discord is not a matter of simply running sudo apt update && sudo…

Hardware detection script for *buntu Linux refurbishers

Posted on February 15, 2023

About the script I wrote the hardware.sh BASH script to make it a bit simpler for volunteers at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project to figure out what hardware was in a…

22 Programs I regularly use under Xubuntu

Posted on February 4, 2023

Introduction (method for choosing programs) When coming up with this list of programs I use regularly under under Xubuntu I felt I had to set some criteria. Any program in this list…

Add webp support to Xubuntu 22.04

Posted on February 3, 2023

Introduction (webp) The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is an amazing image editor. I’ve used GIMP at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project ever since I started volunteering for the project back…

Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish

Posted on February 1, 2023

It’s a challenge to talk about Xubuntu Linux without referring to Xubuntu’s more popular relative, Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux was started in 2004 and based around a then popular flavour/distribution of Linux,…

A quick look at Xubuntu 22.10

Posted on February 1, 2023

At the Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project we still install Xubuntu 20.04, codename: Focal Fossa, on almost all of the systems we refurbish. Xubuntu 20.04 was released to the public in April,…

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