Tag: Linux

Bookmarked Switching To Linux Full-Time: My Thoughts Two Months Later (Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.)

My Linux journey has not been all sunshine and rainbows, but I think I’m getting the hang of it. A few thoughts.

@readtedium Linux Lessons (So Far)

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I really should tinker more with Linux, but after finding that running music software would be a challenge, I have parked it for now.

Bookmarked How to Install macOS in a Virtual Machine on Ubuntu Linux (makeuseof.com)

Virtual machines are very important in computing and software engineering. They primarily allow us to test and use different operating systems without the need for extra hardware. Besides, you can rest assured that if something goes wrong with the virtual machine, it won’t break your existing host operating system.

This guide will show you how to install macOS on Ubuntu Linux using a QEMU-KVM Virtual Machine. With that, you will be able to use native macOS software that is not otherwise available in Linux.

I continued my tinkering with Linux. After replacing the operating system on my old Macbook Pro, I wanted to run some software that I needed MacOS to do. I followed Mwiza Kumwenda’s guide to using QEMU/KVM to run a virtual machine. Although it worked fine, I think that I came to the realisation that the days are numbered for the old Mac.
Bookmarked Linux On The Laptop Works So Damn Well That It’s Boring (Medium)

A few days ago I took my Macbook Pro into the shop. It needed a new battery; the current one is five years old and dies after an hour. We’ll be in touch by next Tuesday, the repair shop said.

Clive Thompson reflects on how easy it is to use Linux these days. Inspired, I decided to reclaim the old Mac that was lying around home. I used Carla Martins’ guide to install Ubuntu. I then used Doug Belshaw’s list of add-ons to get started with Firefox.

In addition to this, here is a collection of command line prompts, as well as command line games.

Bookmarked Raspberry PiMac (steve-best.github.io)

While I have long been familiar with the Raspberry Pi (I have one running Retro Pi), I wish I had known about this option to revive older hardware sooner. Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop is fast and reliable, and it has made our iMac a truly usable machine for day-to-day computing tasks. Before I found this operating system, I thought our iMac was not too much longer for this world. macOS was clearly no longer an option, given the general lack of support and the system resources needed to run even non-supported versions of macOS. ChromeOS (Cloudready) had a lot of bugs, including extremely slow network speeds. I could barely get 10 mbps over Wifi. Ubuntu worked well, but in its standard form using the Gnome desktop environment, it was very resource intensive. Even lighter desktop environments like XFCE, while a little better, were still taxing. That said, Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop uses a minimal amount of RAM, and as such, it is really fast. I also think the UI looks great.

I really should try this with my old Macbook that I no longer use.
Liked After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (The New Yorker)

Torvalds has publicly posted thousands of scathing messages targeting programmers who submit what he deems flawed code to the Linux computer-operating-system kernel, which he brought to life more than twenty-five years ago and now administers as a collaborative, open-source project. Today, the Linux kernel is famous, running the enormous computers of Google, PayPal, Amazon, and eBay, and the two billion mobile phones using the Android operating system. Torvalds, though, retains final say over each precious line of code, just as he did when he first started working on the system as a graduate student at the University of Helsinki. For years, he has been known as Linux’s “benevolent dictator for life.”