I’ve been using Linux (Kubuntu to be precise) as my standard operating system on my laptop for a couple of months now. I used Linux almost exclusively in my ten university years (from 1999 to 2009), […]
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The keyboard problem Once you start using more than one operating system, you’ll notice that they have different approaches to keyboard layouts – if you use a language that requires special characters. For me, it’s the […]
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 […]