Note: April 8th 2022. This may no longer work. It worked at the time of writing, but my printers keep coming up again now. Modern GNOME based distros automatically discover and install printers on your network and there’s no easy way to disable this. In the past disabling cups-browsed was enough, but we also now need to […]
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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that WSLg, the Microsoft-developed WSL GUI, is finally available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel after teasing it previously. This brings official support for Linux GUI apps to run alongside Windows ones, potentially ending the need for some people to dual-boot Windows and Linux. What works? Clipboard copy/paste ✅ Sound
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Canonical has released Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, while not much has changed over 20.04 it does bring us a handful of new things (namely GNOME 3.38.0, ZFS is no longer classified as experimental, and the Linux Kernel 5.8). 1. Install a new theme and icons 20.10 might have only just been released, but Ubuntu’s UI
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It’s still a little surprising how much effort Microsoft is putting into Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), with even GUI support coming to Insider Preview versions of Windows later this year. Regardless – it’s a very welcome feature for many people. WSL 2 support is available for Windows 10 on Intel/AMD and Windows 10 on
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