Your home lab's biggest mistake might be running everything in LXCs
Jeff Butts Apr 30, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
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I stopped dismissing FreeBSD after trying out its modern distros
…the bunch, GhostBSD has most of the features you’ll ever need from a daily driver OS. Unlike conventional FreeBSD, GhostBSD ships with MATE, a pre-configured desktop environment that, despite being…
Microsoft Phone Link completely dropped the ball, but here's what I use instead
…predates Windows 11, but was rebranded to work with the OS . Early versions were rudimentary and unhelpful, offering only SMS support, photo access, and notification handling. I'll admit the ugly duckling…
I switched from Proxmox to its FreeBSD counterpart on my home server – here's how it went
…But I’ve also spent weekends trying to install drivers and configure packages on FreeBSD systems, only to run into a cascading chain of errors. But this experimental tool, Sylve, had one…
I tried Fedora and learned why it's not the beginner Linux distro everyone assumes it is
…Even for Flatpak , which is a universally supported packaging system, Fedora doesn't have the main Flathub repository added, so a lot of apps will be missing. For a beginner, it will…
Linux is finally ready for gamers, but gamers are still not ready for Linux
…supporting around 90% of Windows games on Linux, game compatibility is better than ever. SteamOS was the game-changer, but many other distros have surpassed Windows in gaming performance. Even the driver…
Winpodx is like a Linux Subsystem for Windows, and it's just as exciting (and useful) as it sounds
…Besides featuring working Ethernet drivers, this environment also supports audio playback, multiple RDP sessions, and bi-directional clipboard. The best part? Winpodx does so without requiring any extra config file tweaks or…
I tested dual-boot, WSL2, and VMs to run Linux apps on Windows, and only one was worth keeping
…Since I’d installed Microsoft’s flagship OS first and kept the king of Vanilla distributions on a spare drive, swapping between the two was pretty simple. But with a little bit…
I revived my old router with OpenWrt after the package manager rewrite, and it took ten minutes
…Sign in to your XDA account Custom router firmware has (mostly) disappeared, mainly because Broadcom won't play nice and share its radio drivers with open-source developers. But that doesn't…
The SATA mode mistake that nearly cost me my entire system
…I even started thinking about buying a new SSD and reinstalling the OS. Losing files wasn't something I was worried about at that time. What I actually changed Almost lost everything…