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The Next Ubuntu Wallpaper Contest Needs to Focus on Quality

A new long-term support release of Ubuntu is on the way, and so too is a brand new Ubuntu wallpaper contest. In recent years long term support releases of Ubuntu have tended to include a “greatest hits” package of supplementary wallpapers, …

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Happy New Year, Folks — Let’s Fill it with Linux, Yeah?!

A saccharine post of colossally cloy sincerity expressed through the medium of words (when I can enter them in the right order), topped with appreciation.
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Firefox I Love You, But Shut Up (aka How to Disable Firefox Recommendations)

Before I get going let me say: I think Firefox is a fantastic browser and a ton of great people work on it. It’s does amazing things. I’d scare myself if I tried imagining what the modern web landscape would look like without it. However… I…

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GRUB Not Showing Windows on Your Ubuntu Dual Boot? Here’s a Fix

I bought a new ‘distro testing’ laptop in the Black Friday sale last month (don’t get carried away, it cost me £200 and a lot of headaches) but I only installed Ubuntu 22.04 on it this weekend — and instantly hit a snag. See, normally…

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Wanna help me pick a masthead colour? [Off Topic]

A 743 word opine on my inability to settle on a colour treatment for a part of the site most people scroll away from pretty quickly.
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Ignore that, folks…

Oh boy, I made a mistake and published something I shouldn’t have. Totally on me; I was so fixated on making sure I published at the right time — translating MDT to BST was confusing […]
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Do Not Adjust Your Monitor: We’re Supposed to Look Like This

It’s not your eyes, your monitor, or even Ubuntu: we DO look different today! In this post I talk about our latest revamp and why it matters to us and you!
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