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Just tried Qubes OS for a few days

https://www.qubes-os.org Love the concept Installed Windows 11 in a cube but had to bypass Windows 11 checks for TPM to get it installed Found Windows 11 networking with the default settings was non-performant (my 100/40 internet service was running at 30/<30 in...

Install Fedora 41 on M1 Macbook VMWare Fusion

Alternate download images available here https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/ Get the Fedora 41 netinst ISO https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/aarch64/iso/Fedora-Everything-netinst-aarch64-41-1.4.iso Download and create VM in...

Clean Graphics Driver with DDU

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-DDU- Be careful you have to find the actual DDU and not all the misleading download links How to use: https://youtu.be/F8OLhUAPDq0?si=phauUo0Cqt6zyXYV

Check for Valid PDF on Linux Command Line

Just become a first time user of PDFgear and found it exiting with a .NET Runtime Event ID 1026 error when opening a PDF. The PDF I was trying to load and edit was generated by a web application that in turn generated PDF's using GLabels. So I needed a way to see if...

PDFgear an Adobe PDF Pro Alternative

Adobe PDF Pro is getting close to $30AUD a month and at almost $350 per user / per year that is a big spend. The other problems is the constant nag to push you into the Adobe Cloud and then the continued account drain to have something available that you might only...