This new feature in TrueNAS 26 makes accessing files easier than ever
…Sign in to your XDA account Drop a question about the best Network-Attached Storage distribution in a home server forum, and you’re bound to hear the name TrueNAS pop up…
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I ditched my Linux VM for WSL, and Windows suddenly became a legitimate development environment
…You either need to create a virtual machine that can share the system resources and run a Linux distribution inside it. Or, you can avoid Type 2 hypervisors and dual-boot Linux…
I tested every Linux desktop and realized fragmentation isn't a problem anymore
…You never know if the apps and packages you're used to will be available on your next distro, if they'll be up to date, or if they even have the…
Euro-Office is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Docs
…It's now available in preview on GitHub. It supports DOCX/PPTX/XLSX and OpenDocument formats; it aims for EU digital sovereignty amid trust concerns. At a recent press event in Berlin…
I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora after 10 years, and I didn't expect to miss this
…The list it compiles is available in the GUI, or you can use the command line to get a list of available drivers and install them from there. After ten years of…
My Raspberry Pi beats my Switch for one reason
…Unfortunately, Nintendo’s locked-down ecosystem makes running third-party tools a massive pain, let alone configuring full-fledged emulation distributions. The “safest workaround” involves exploiting a security flaw in older Switch…
Unraid finally dropped the USB boot stick requirement, and it's about time
…Sign in to your XDA account Just like the home server ecosystem, the Network-Attached Storage landscape is riddled with cool distributions, packages, and web UIs you can use to build your…
COSMIC desktop surprised me, because it's the Linux DE I've been waiting for
…Sign in to your XDA account Linux is a versatile operating system because each distribution gives it a unique spin. Distributions further adopt a desktop environment that adds a GUI on top…
The best cheap Linux-based desktop you can buy was never designed to run Linux
…I’ve been installing Asahi Linux since it first became available, and the process today feels dramatically different from those early builds. Back then, getting Linux running on Apple Silicon felt much…
Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
…There were Zip drives available with all kinds of interfaces, whether they were internal or external, and as late as 2014, some aviation companies were still using Zip drives to distribute updates…