Ich nutze Linux (genauer gesagt Kubuntu) inzwischen seit ein paar Monaten als Standardbetriebssystem auf meinem Laptop. In meinen zehn Universitätsjahren (von 1999 bis 2009) habe ich fast ausschließlich Linux verwendet, in der Unternehmenswelt war dagegen alles […]
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Das Tastaturproblem Sobald Sie mehr als ein Betriebssystem verwenden, werden Sie feststellen, dass diese unterschiedliche Ansätze für Tastaturlayouts haben – vor allem, wenn Sie eine Sprache nutzen, die Sonderzeichen erfordert. Bei mir sind es das akzentuierte […]
Despite a history with Linux that reaches back more than 25 years, Windows is my main desktop operating system – partly because having been in corporate environments where I was force to use it, partly because […]
I’ve long considered getting a small low-power Linux PC as intranet database and web server and for testing Linux applications. Intel’s N100 processor has been a bit of game-changer in this segment, employing four efficiency cores […]
Linux/Windows dual boot works fine, but there are cases where this is not feasible. A computer may have to do most of its work under Windows because of certain application. When Linux is required, the Windows […]
I’ve been using WSL for running Linux-only software and it works really well, but there are cases (especially when graphical output is needed) where a native Linux system is required. Lately I’ve taken advantage of the […]
Google offers a free trial of its Cloud Platform, worth US$ 300 over a 90-day period, with an additional US$ 100 if you provide a company e-mail address. After spending some time with Azure, I decided […]
Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing service. Like its competitors from Google and Amazon, it offers many different services – storage, databases, machine learning, virtual machines, and others. Some of the services are for free, others can […]
Linux was my main operating system during my university days, but when I started working at ARCADIS, I was back in an all-Windows environment. I’ve learned to live with it, but there are still cases when […]