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The case of the Borked HDD 20230825_162655-Resized
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The case of the Borked HDD

David Both May 3, 2025
1 It all started this morning when I went to start my regular Saturday yoga session. I...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 20—Follow your curiosity A black cat holding a person's arm on a keyboard.
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 20—Follow your curiosity

David Both May 2, 2025
I love to learn new things. I was fortunate in that my curiosity led me to a...
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How to get started with Linux 3-Penguins-Cropped
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How to get started with Linux

David Both May 1, 2025
Many of the messages I see in the #Linux feeds on BlueSky and mastodon are Windows users...
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How to find Open Source Software to replace your Windows software puzzle_computer_solve_fix_tool
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How to find Open Source Software to replace your Windows software

David Both April 30, 2025
Author’s note: This article is based on Chapter 6 of my book, “Linux for Small Business Owners,”...
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Mastering Screenshots with KDE Spectacle: button_push_open_keyboard_file_organize-02
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Mastering Screenshots with KDE Spectacle:

Don Watkins April 29, 2025
Writing blog posts that share my experiences with Linux and open-source software often requires screenshots of accomplishing...
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Beware Fedora updates of April 28, 2025 th-4282172322
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Beware Fedora updates of April 28, 2025

David Both April 28, 2025
1 It breaks iptables with no warning I’m rather angry right now but I promise to remain...
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Learning to use System Settings in Fedora KDE Plasma api.openverse-03
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Learning to use System Settings in Fedora KDE Plasma

Don Watkins April 28, 2025
I have been using Fedora with the KDE Plasma desktop environment for almost three months, and overall,...
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Draw in color using Portable Pix Maps programming-code-keyboard-laptop-music-headphones
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Draw in color using Portable Pix Maps

Jim Hall April 25, 2025
Create colorful images using the Portable Pix Map format.
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The duf command Header-data_stack_blue_disks
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The duf command

David Both April 24, 2025
The duf command is an advanced form of the df command that uses boxes to separate...
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Grayscale images with Portable Gray Maps code_development_programming
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Grayscale images with Portable Gray Maps

Jim Hall April 23, 2025
Learn to write grayscale images using the Portable Gray Map format.
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Five things I like about the Cinnamon desktop Cinnamon
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Five things I like about the Cinnamon desktop

David Both April 22, 2025
I'm not a distro-hopper; I'm a desktop-hopper. But I try many different desktops just to see what...
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Write tiny images using PBM design_photo_art_polaroids
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Write tiny images using PBM

Jim Hall April 21, 2025
The Portable Bit Map (“PBM”) image file format was invented in the 1980s as a way to...
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My first impressions of Fedora 42 F42-Cinnamon-04
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My first impressions of Fedora 42

David Both April 18, 2025
You might be aware that I upgraded all of the Both.org systems over the last two days,...
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Fedora 42 upgrades at Both.org

David Both April 15, 2025
Fedora 42 was released today, and I’ve been upgrading my systems. So far I’ve only done my...
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Fedora 42 has been released

David Both April 15, 2025
It’s now 21 years since Fedora Core 1 was originally released in November of 2003, and it’s...
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Five reasons for Windows users to move to Linux Host-with-multiple-VMs-01-resized
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Five reasons for Windows users to move to Linux

David Both April 14, 2025
Take back your power As the October deadline for dumping Windows 10 is fast approaching, many users...
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Why I’ve Never Used Windows

On February 12 I gave a presentation at the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) about why I use Linux and why I’ve never used Windows.

Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/uCK_haOXPFM 

David Both ATO Interview

Last October at All Things Open (ATO) I was interviewed by Jason Hibbits of We Love Open Source. It’s posted in the article “Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet)“.

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