My Linux Experience 2026

    Week 9  Linux is known to run well on a massive range of devices, including consoles. That is why I want try to install Linux Mint XFCE on a MacBook Pro from the early 2010s.   Why Linux Mint XFCE?  Well, Linux Mint is known to be very simple and straight forward to use for people who are doing the switch from another operating system to Linux (such as Windows). It has great support and compatibility, while even being light weight, therefore making it usable on relatively old devices. However, I doubt that the standard Linux Mint (Cinnamon) would be light weight enough, so that is why I am installing the XFCE version, which can apparently only use around 500-700 MB of RAM while being idle. If you compare it to Windows or even my CachyOS Linux install, there is a large difference. I want the old computer to be able to be used for daily tasks, such as writing documents, preparing slideshows, browsing the internet, and everything that a casual user wo...

  Week 8    In this week's episode of "My Linux Experience 2026", I will go through, as the series name suggests, my journey with the Linux operating system this week. I will cover the apps and programs that I used, as well as an honest personal opinion about them. Let's dive right in.   Python  I have always liked the concept of creating your own app or program, as well as the code that goes behind it. This is why I learnt some Python to make basic input and output responses with the user, HTML to make my very own website, and obviously some Scratch. After I installed Linux, I always embraced the idea of an open source software, where anyone can propose edits or branch off into a customised version of the program. That is what gave me the inspiration to create something for the Linux community. After some research, I installed the " thonny " Python editor. I found out that it didn't work exactly like an app like the ones we know so well. To launch it, I...

   Week 7  While daily driving Linux on my PC at home, I have noted several quality of life features that the operating system, or at least KDE CachyOS Wayland, offers the user. In this post I will sum up and list the features in a ranked order, from last (but certainly not least) to the best. Obviously there might not be an equal gap throughout the items of the list; the "best" one might only be slightly stronger than the second and third quality of life features. But without any ado, let's dive right in. 4.   Btop - computer performance monitor   "Btop " is an excellent performance monitor which is directly accessible right on the go. it features clean bars showing the usage of your computer components like your CPU and your memory (RAM). The usage percentages and the temperatures of all CPU threads are also shown (in my case there are 16 threads). Graphs showing the download and uploads of memory and storage are also present with a great deal of metrics...

  Week 6    If you have seen benchmark videos showcasing the performance of a certain CPU and GPU combination in a list of famous and demanding titles, you will remember that they always have this cool, live-updated, performance monitors that display the usage in percentage of the components as well as their temperatures, the memory (RAM and VRAM) being used, and obviously the frame rate (FPS) with the 1% lows. But unfortunately, the software that the video creators use aren't often native on Linux.   The app that I use on my CachyOS Linux desktop is  MangoHUD . It features a performance monitor which can be customised using the straight forward  GOverlay.  The GOverlay interface even includes a spinning cube simulation that can be used to test the performance monitor before applying it to a game.  The  GOverlay  interaface with the  vkcube  simulation - the "Basic" view is selected   As shown in the image above, the perfo...