Category Archives: Linux

Never ever install Nextcloud from Yast

By | August 29, 2025

Years ago, when I spun up my OpenSuse VM to run my website and Nextcloud, I used the Nextcloud installer from the software repository included with OpenSuse. I realized after a few years now that decision was a huge mistake! Don’t ever do this! The Nextcloud version still listed today in the OpenSuse repo is… Read More »

Stop Wayland from being used

By | July 14, 2025

Yeah, I heard, Wayland is the future, but for remote access to your desktop, screenshot utilities and more, Wayland just sucks. I prefer to use Xorg for now and don’t care what the general consensus is. If you want to know how to stop Wayland from being used on your machine (If using the Gnome… Read More »

Replacing apt with Nala

By | April 19, 2024

Nala is an improved front-end for the apt package manager in Ubuntu/Debian Linux. It adds many features and a better visual representation to the activity of the command. A really good article about Nala can be found here at ItsFoss. There are many more features and arguments to nala than the normal apt command offers.… Read More »

Reformatting a flash drive formatted as ISO

By | October 4, 2023

Typically, when a flash drive is formatted from an ISO image, the flash drive will be formatted as an ISO9660 type and not want to be re-formatted or erased easily. Take a look at Gparted showing a flash drive below with the Linux Mint ISO on it. When I attempt to delete the Partition in… Read More »