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Choosing a Linux Distribution

I haz opinions

The TL;DR Migrating from Microsoft Windows or Apple macOS to Linux? Overwhelmed by the lingo? Trying to make sense of where to start? Consider this post as a primer to get up to …

Posted by Chris on Fri, Sep 12, 2025

How I Configure and Use The Gnome Desktop Environment

Gnome purists may want to avert their eyes...

The TL;DR Gnome is a really well designed and implemented user interface. It is the flagship environment for GTK applications and it has a very elegant, dialed in appearance. If …

Posted by Chris on Wed, Jun 25, 2025

Gnome Tweak: Custom Window Borders

Little quality of life things on the desktop

I am a floating/stacking window manager type of person and I use Gnome as my desktop environment lately (v48.1 currently). When there are a lot of windows open that are …

Posted by Chris on Wed, May 14, 2025

So you want to try Linux...

Let's set groundwork and realistic expectations

The TL;DR Microsoft is making Windows 10 obsolete in the second half of this year. It will no longer receive security updates or bug fixes as of October 14, 2025. As a result, …

Posted by Chris on Tue, Mar 18, 2025

Free Software Day 2025

Giving public thanks

Today is Free Software Day 2025! The idea behind Free Software Day is to give thanks to all the free software projects that make your life a little bit easier. In today’s …

Posted by Chris on Fri, Feb 14, 2025

Supposed first post

Reboot 'da moose!

Today I’m “rebooting” moose.ca as a website to share computer related tidbits and tooling.

Posted by Chris on Sat, Feb 1, 2025

That time I built a "carputer"

If I knew then what I know now... I'd still be iterating

In the early 00’s I started messing around with creating a custom head unit for my Jeep Cherokee (XJ). The idea was to have something that could handle music playback and …

Posted by Chris on Wed, Jan 29, 2025

How to disable Recall on Microsoft Windows

Disable Microsoft's agressive deployment of spyware on your computer

Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft Recall. Microsoft Edge. These are features I have zero interest in for my Windows computer. I have some commercial software that requires …

Posted by Chris on Sun, Dec 15, 2024

How to access the command line inside a flatpak

Sometimes you need to do root things

Flatpaks are great for getting the most up to date version of a piece of software. Sometimes a Linux distribution’s software repositories can lag or the maintainer that is …

Posted by Chris on Fri, Nov 29, 2024

Quality of life tweaks for Firefox and variants

Let's fix some annoyances

Firefox is the last mainstream browser standing against the onslaught of Chromium. I use Firefox and variants. Floorp is my daily driver. I use others for different purposes, such …

Posted by Chris on Sun, Sep 29, 2024