Category: Distros

Ubuntu LTS underneath, an installer that puts the NVIDIA driver on for you, and COSMIC — a desktop built in Rust that finally shipped. What it does well, and why…

What these distributions actually are, why Kali's own documentation tells you not to use it as a daily desktop, and how Parrot and BlackArch differ. Plus the legal line that…

Two very different distributions under one name, plus the one feature nobody else does as well — a rolling release you can undo from the boot menu.

It is Debian, tuned for the hardware. Headless setup done properly, the SD card problem nobody warns you about, and when to run something else on a Pi.

Ubuntu LTS underneath, no snaps, and a desktop that works the way you expect. What Mint changes, why the release cadence is deliberately slow, and where it falls short.

Two projects took over what CentOS used to be. What they are, how they differ from each other, and why ten years of support without a subscription still matters.

How Ubuntu's release cycle and support windows actually work, what snaps are and why people argue about them, and an honest account of who Ubuntu suits.

How pacman and the AUR work, why partial upgrades break systems, what maintaining a rolling release actually involves, and an honest answer on whether you should run it.

Fedora's six-month cadence, how it feeds CentOS Stream and RHEL, living with dnf and SELinux, and why it is the desktop to run if your servers are Red Hat.

How Debian's stable, testing and unstable branches work, what backports are for, why it runs so many servers, and where it differs from Ubuntu in practice.