TODAY, TO MIX THINGS UP, I'M GONNA BE RANKING EVER WINDOWS VERSION AS A LINUX USER. SPOILER ALERT: EVERY WINDOWS VERSION SUCKS, SOME JUST SUCK LESS THAN OTHERS. WINDOWS 1 THROUGH 3.0 Complete shit. At this point there was no legitimately good reason to use Windows over any other graphical shell for MS-DOS. The user interface is horrible, the colors are jarringly bad no matter what graphics mode yo... » Continue Reading
THIS IS A (PERHAPS) LONG-AWAITED FOLLOW-UP TO MY BLOG ENTRIES ON SOFTLANDING LINUX SYSTEM, ONE OF THE OLDEST LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS OF ALL TIME. THIS DISTRO IS ABOUT THE SAME AGE, MAYBE EVEN OLDER. Here's a basic rundown of the very early (pre-Slackware) days of Linux. After Linus Torvalds unveiled the Linux kernel in 1991 during his tenure as a student of the University of Helsinki, Finland, many in... » Continue Reading
So, I've realized that I've had a constant web presence on various sites for over 3 years now (when I actually decided to start making accounts for stuff), yet I've never made any posts on any sites introducing myself and talking in-depth about my interests and stuff. Let's change that today, shall we? INTRODUCTION My name is TronNerd82 (not my actual name but I ain't telling anyone that for a lon... » Continue Reading
Hi. I'm TronNerd82, an esteemed professor, PhD in all manner of retardation online, and I have come to make a PSA. Twitter kids. So, if you've been living under a Dwayne Johnson, Elon Musk took over Twitter, and decided to rename it X, presumably since he's got some kind of fetish with the letter X and the names XVIDEOS and XNXX were already taken » Continue Reading
Foreword Most of my readers know my blog for the "Slackware, Simplified" series, where I offer beginner-friendly tutorials on Slackware Linux. However, there's only so much I can think to cover. In the meantime, I've created a new series, "Tron's Takes" where I offer my opinions on various topics that interest me, and potentially others that you, the reader, can suggest I look into in the comments... » Continue Reading
This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. One of the common criticism towards Slackware is that its method of package management is archaic and unintuitive by the standards of most modern distro » Continue Reading
I, like many chronically online pieces of shit, consume a concerningly large amount of YouTube videos. And as a Linux user, one of the video topics I frequently check out is videos pertaining to Linux. Linux news, gaming, security, etc. But for every good Linux YouTuber, there seem to be plenty of bad ones, people who barely know what they're waffling on about, people who get information wrong (w... » Continue Reading
This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. Today's entry of "Slackware, Simplified" serves to kill two birds with one stone; initially, I was going to do separate entries about multilib and » Continue Reading
This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. From the initial install, Slackware has a solid handful of graphical environments available to use. They are (in a full install): K » Continue Reading
This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. It's been a little while since the previous entry, but trust me, today's entry is a good one. So, up to this point, you've installed Slackware, configured the package man » Continue Reading
This is a blog series designed to help people starting out with Slackware, or just considering it, be able to use it to their fullest extent, presented in a beginner-friendly manner. In the last entry, we learned how to install Slackware. Today, I'll be teaching you how to work with two different essential parts of Slackware: package management, and th » Continue Reading