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Everything tagged Linux, wherever it's filed, newest first.
How to put a lightweight XFCE desktop on a machine that started life as Ubuntu Server, which package to pick, how to make it boot to the desktop, and how to give it a dark theme from the command line.
ICON is my open-source Python tool that scans your desktop shortcuts, finds square artwork for them on SteamGridDB, and replaces the icons, with a backup you can restore from.
Thread: Games and gear ↗Deckport is my open-source Python tool that registers portable native Linux games as Steam Deck non-Steam shortcuts, with artwork, so they show up in Game Mode ready to play.
Thread: Games and gear ↗My everyday laptop is a ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 running Linux Mint. Why that pairing, how Dropbox fits in, and the few things worth setting up on day one.
Thread: Games and gear ↗A PowerShell script that sorts every show and movie in a folder into flat A-Z buckets, skips anything that would collide, and dry-runs honestly.
Thread: File wrangling ↗How I'd turn a bare Ubuntu Server install into a light XFCE desktop for someone learning computers, with the silly terminal programs that make the command line fun and a sensible order to learn it in.
Thread: Games and gear ↗My v2 build spec for an all-in-one cyberdeck built around AMD's BC-250 mining board, a printed slim console case, a 15.6-inch touch panel, and Bazzite running the niri window manager.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗Compare files, whole folder trees, or a download against its published checksum with Get-FileHash, and get back a clear Match or Different for every file.
Thread: File wrangling ↗