with Windows on the side — This article is aimed at distro hoppers who like to install multiple Linux distributions to their system drive and to be able to replace them with minimal effort when new ones come along. This is written especially digital artists and Blender users in mind. However, this article is only about…

And how is it different from Windows and Mac OS X? — Just like Windows and Mac OS X, Linux is a computer operating system. It is free and open-source. There isn’t just one Linux operating system in the world, there are hundreds of different ones. Both free and commercial ones, usually free. Because there are so many different Linux operating systems…

Often NVIDIA drivers have been the cause for most of my head ache in getting my Linux installations to work well. After installing a distro, one of the most important things for me is to get CUDA working in Blender as quickly and easily as possible. I’ve formed a couple…

In order to benefit of PPA’s, you need a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution. Most often an Ubuntu-based distribution’s default software manager has very outdated versions of the software I want to use. Also, it would take quite some time to download them from their websites by hand separately. This is where…

Useful applications for everyday life. Last updated: 2016–11–06 — Visualise your hard drive’s contents Linux: GdMap (Graphical Disk Map), Baobab, K4DirStat MacOS X: Disk Inventory X Windows: WinDirStat GdMap visualizes how different files use disk space in your hard drive. By pointing big blocks you see what files use the most of it and you can delete them straight from the application. …

Last updated: 2017–01–01 — I don’t usually use much Terminal in Linux, but for some things it’s a very handy tool. Every now and then I read a nice article about using it and so I decided to gather some of the most basic and useful hints into this article. Here’s another good article…

Generally I like to have my files in one of four places. Work, Storage, Dropbox or the Archives. Work About 25 GB EXT4 partition from the fast system SSD drive Mount point: /work Temporary space, usually for work-in-progress projects that benefit from the speed of the SSD partition, like large EXR…

After downloading an operating system .iso image from a distro’s website, it makes sense to run a fast verifying command to see if it has transferred without errors. Here are some good instructions of how it’s done in Windows, Mac OS X or Ubuntu. So, in Linux, for example, just…

Below I’m demonstrating a command-line way of writing the .iso image of Xubuntu onto a USB stick. Ubuntu’s site and Elementary OS’s site have good instructions on how to do this in Windows, Mac OS X or Ubuntu. Or just use the super simple cross-platform application Etcher to write the…