Lowell Buidls It

Unraid recently released 7.0.0, a major version that brought a good chunk of changes. If you run Unraid at home, you might consider upgrading. The process is simple enough. Right? Sure. But have you considered why you are upgrading? What are you gaining? What will you lose? Are you safe in the case of a failed upgrade? I discuss much of this in my video but this post is a written form of those thoughts in case you prefer it. ...

What is Manjaro and why use it? Manjaro is a distribution of Arch Linux. It brings a much more user friendly experience to the Arch world and provides many conveniences that used to be manual like installing appropriate graphics drivers, supplying a graphical application installer, and more. What is dual booting? Dual booting is the concept of installing two separate Operating Systems (OS) on the same computer. Generally, one of the two OS will supply a boot menu that gives you the choice to pick between which OS to boot into when you hit the power button. While you cannot run both OS simultaneously, this way allows you to setup what you want in Linux and maybe allow you to continue having a Windows installation for the handful of applications you cannot use in Linux. ...

🎄First off, Merry Christmas! 🎉 Inspiration You know when you start doing something new and either want to do it as a learning opportunity or perhaps you want to take notes of it for later? Well why not publish those notes for the world to read? I was inspired by NetworkChuck on YouTube to finally follow through on my idea of writing a blog. I created the git repository for this project a while ago… ...