Chezmoi for DotFiles
Monday, May 16, 2022
Chezmoi for DotFiles For the past 11 years I have maintained all of my dotfiles in a repository on GitHub . In fact this was the first repository I ever created up there. The idea was that I would copy my dotfiles into a folder called .dotfiles and then copy them to the appropriate location myself. This is a bit painful at the best of times, and I just don’t do it other times.…
Installing Hugo
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
I’ve written about how Hugo saved my website and how to deal with page resources . (Although, I now use ![]() syntax for images.) But I haven’t really done any deep dives into Hugo. I’m going to change that now. This blog post is all about installing Hugo. The reason I’m writing this post is because installing it isn’t as easy as it should be. Linux Install I’m starting with Linux because it is the easiest.…
Arch Linux Printer Install
Friday, January 8, 2021
Introduction I’m glutton for punishment. A couple months ago I took my stable and user friendly Ubuntu Linux install and replaced it with Arch Linux. Why? Please see the first sentence. Since then it’s been running really well. There’s a manual step to update things like Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Visual Studio Code because they come from the Arch User Repository (AUR). Today when I was updating Microsoft Edge I lost all my open tabs.…
Build 2020 Part 2
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Oh My! I totally forgot my favorite parts of Build in my last blog post . Read on to learn more. WSL2 WSL2 is part of Windows 10 v2004 that came out this month. With it comes a full fledged Linux kernel. It’s amazing and fast. In the Linux file system you’ll see speed improvements of 60%. But that’s not all. At Build they announced that GPU pass through, DirectX 12 on WSL, and most importantly Linux GUI is coming this year to WSL!…
Intel NUC 10
Sunday, May 3, 2020
I have been using an old Gigabyte Brix computer for about 7 years as a secondary computer. Mostly I use it on my Twitch stream to keep track of the chat. It does the job, but if I tried to do too many things at once with it, it would bog down and run really slow. It maxed out at 16GB of RAM and I had a 256GB mSATA drive in it.…
Custom WSL Image
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Windows Subsystem for Linux (also known as WSL) is a system where you can run a Linux distribution inside Windows. This is great in that you can run any command line application in Windows. Version 1 of WSL did this using a translation layer between the Linux system and the Windows side. Version 2, which is part of version 2004 of Windows 10, uses an actual Linux kernel to do the work.…
Printer Install
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
I have been playing with a few different distributions of Linux for my secondary machine. I have been on Ubuntu for a while and yesterday I installed Arch Linux. Today, I installed Linux Mint. Overall I really like the desktop environment that it comes with. It seems as polished as Ubuntu. Tonight I thought I would try installing my network printer to see how hard it is to install. I went to System Settings and selected Printers.…