LINUX

I've been looking for a replacement ultrabook for the last few weeks and ran across the new 2016 Vaio Z (VJZ131A11L). Fantastic hardware! It's sporting an i7-6567U, Iris 550 graphics, great battery life, and a 13.3" WQHD (2560x1440) display. Most importantly, it has a fantastic keyboard. Essentially, a 13 …

Those who have talked to me in the past few months know that I've been a bit discontent with Ubuntu lately. Specifically around the stability of 16.04. A couple years ago, I switched to using Ubuntu Gnome. Originally, I felt that Unity had some very interesting UX ideas to …

As I had some success with Debian Stretch on my desktop this week, I decided to give it a try on my ultrabook. For reference purposes, it's a Samsung ATIV Book 9 13.3 (NP900X3K-K01US). While the touchpad originally didn't function in the installer, it worked just fine once Debian …

I've been playing around with Debian Stretch this week and one of the really annoying issues I ran into was with font rendering. I was trying to figure out why my nice fonts looked like garbage. Come to find out, I was just missing a configuration file! So, if you're …