State of Linux Gaming 2021I recently had the good fortune of being able to jump to Linux as a full-time desktop on a rather nice machine. Since it has a half-way…Oct 7, 20211Oct 7, 20211
Review — Diablo II: Resurrected (PS4)I’m playing Diablo II on PS4. I really didn’t expect that to happen. But what I did expect to happen was for it to entertain for hours on…Oct 4, 2021Oct 4, 2021
Why is informed consent necessary?I don’t like to get political on this blog, but this particular question has popped up a lot lately, and I’d like to address it from the…Sep 19, 2021Sep 19, 2021
Ubuntu 20.04 — Some Azure AnnoyancesUbuntu 20.04 has given me some issues on Azure. Previously, I’d installed 18.04 and upgraded to 20.04 with do-release-upgrade. This mostly…Jun 18, 2021Jun 18, 2021
A Working Linux Desktop on WindowsWSL2 is almost maddening in how close it is to being a complete Linux environment. Really, the major missing piece is full systemd support…May 16, 2021May 16, 2021
How do I move my organization to Linux?I’m living the dream. My company is running Windows servers and our latest direction is that we want to replace our .NET applications on…May 6, 2021May 6, 2021
Cloud Gaming on LinuxJust to round out this series, I recently discovered that the AWS g4dn can run Linux AMIs. And that the NVIDIA Tesla T4 is a supported…Apr 15, 2021Apr 15, 2021
Does a vendor-agnostic stack really exist?As an architect, I’ve made it a principle to avoid becoming dependent on specific vendors. That itself seems prudent, but is it really…Apr 3, 2021Apr 3, 2021
A Cloud Gaming PC, Part 2In a previous article, I discussed building a cloud gaming PC in Azure. If you were successful in building it, you probably deleted fairly…Feb 21, 2021Feb 21, 2021