A couple of months ago I wrote about how I was considering moving from Bazzite to Cachy OS. I had yet to make the move in large part because Bazzite on my decade old Dell XPS 15 was working very well and was doing what I needed it to do. It's great as a companion machine for marking student work and general admin when...

The past couple of days I've been solving various things across devices, services, and operating systems. I spent a big chunk of yesterday evening finally fixing the HDR issue I had playing The Witcher 3 on Steam Deck via Heroic Launcher (that I got for free on GOG). The fix was very simple and it was one I was aware...

On my old Dell XPS I've currently got Bazzite running on it. This has been running pretty well, especially considering it is now almost a decade old. However, even though it does have a dedicated mobile graphics card it is unsurprisingly old and therefore not really up to gaming, even particularly older stuff. So I...

Linux is almost ready for prime time Increasingly during 2025 my aim was to try and move further away from relying on the established big tech for my day to day computer use. Quite quickly I was able to achieve this for key parts of my web use. Google was the biggest victim of this, in part because years ago I shifted a...

So much for being able to post here multiple times a week... I haven't gone anywhere, and whilst work has been busy, I technically did have a bit of time I could have posted something. Yet, I was either too tired or not in the mindset to write. Annoyingly, when I was in the mindset to write then I was too busy or...