NVIDIA not working well on Wayland. This needs to be fixed.
Setting the fan speed with Wayland does not seem to work at all. Hopefully this will be fixed eventually.
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How to enable Nvidia fan control on Ubuntu 20.04. This is very easy.
Setting the GPU fan speed on Linux is very important if a user wants to participate in gaming and not have a burning smell come from their GPU. I have found a way to get this working and it is very simple. Run this command to create a basic Xorg…
Read MoreHow to turn off the ondemand CPU governor on an Ubuntu Linux machine.
The default CPU governor on an Ubuntu machine sets it to use an ondemand CPU setting that will use the lowest CPU speed and then set it higher when it is needed, but it does not always work very well. But it can be fixed. Dsiable the ondemand CPU governor….
Read MoreHow to get a nice speed boost for Ubuntu, this really does work well.
There is a nice way to get a good speed boost for your Ubuntu system, this disables a few security settings for your Intel CPU, this can reduce the security of your Linux system, but can speed up your CPU a small amount. These settings from https://make-linux-fast-again.com/ are very useful…
Read MoreAnother good way to speed up the boot time of Ubuntu.
My Ubuntu 18.04 system was taking a long time to boot, but I have analyzed the problem with Systemd and now it should boot faster. Run this command to see which service takes the longest at boot time. 4.4 Thu Oct 17 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ systemd-analyze blame | head -n…
Read MoreVery useful Firefox tips for speeding up the browser and improving your experience.
Speed up and tweak Firefox with these tipsSpeed up the Firefox browserDisable Firefox telemetry Speed up and tweak Firefox with these tips Speed up the Firefox browser I had problems with Firefox being slow on Facebook, but this tip has helped. Go to about:config and search for this value. dom.storage.enableddom.storage.enabled…
Read MoreAustralian Internet is slower than Korea.
Updating the sources.lst as I write this, it is taking a long time, but I am using the Town Library connection with WIFI and it is only about 64K per second, so updating the aforementioned file with apt-get update takes quite a while to run. I wish Australia could get…
Read MoreMalcom Turnbull and his failure on the NBN.
Hack Tuesday April 9 2013: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/daily/hack_tue_2013_4_9.mp3. Listen to this recording of the ABC TripleJ radio show Hack and hear what Malcom Turnbull is planning if the Liberals get into power in 2013. A broadband network using copper wires instead of the Labour proposed fibre to the node that would use…
Read MoreSSD Solid State Disks taking over from the traditional hard disk with moving parts that can wear out.
The Solid State Drives that are now available, with no moving parts compared to a traditional hard disk are the faster alternative to the traditional hard disk drives that are taking over as very fast boot drives. They do not have the capacity of a traditional hard disk, an SSD…
Read MoreHow to speed up the KDE 4.8.0 desktop.
I have installed the KDE 4.8.0 desktop on Ubuntu 12.04 and this KDE release is the fastest yet, everything works very well, adding new themes, splash screens and window decorations works perfectly. Many people hate what Canonical are doing with the Unity desktop and the KDE desktop is a nice…
Read MoreLinux is getting bloated.
Is there a real reason the Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Linux Mint & Fedora have to be so bloated? The Debian distribution is very fast and usable compared to the Ubuntu distribution that has moved from the Gnome 2.32.1 desktop environment to the Unity desktop that has created some controversy…
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