Content Tagged with: Linux

There’s a specific kind of magic that happens when you fire up a high-end PC game from the comfort of your sofa. But if you’re like me, that magic usually gets ruined by the sound of a PC that sounds like a jet engine taking off next to your TV. After a lot of tinkering with my own rig—running Zorin OS 18 on a beautiful LG OLED—I finally found the "Holy Grail" of setups. It’s...

Hey there! If you've recently made the jump to Zorin OS 18 (which is built on the super-solid Ubuntu 24.04), or any Linux Distro, welcome to the family! Zorin is beautiful right out of the box, but if you're like me - with a desk full of monitors, a 4K TV across the room, and a few specific work tools - you might find that things don't always "just work" exactly how you want them...

So, you’ve made the switch to Linux, installed the beautiful Zorin OS 18 (Or another kind of Distro), and you’re ready to game. If you’re like me and you're rocking one of the shiny new AMD cards (I'm rockin' the the Radeon RX 9070 XT) you might notice that while things work "out of the box," they aren't quite optimized for maximum performance yet. I spent some time tinkering with my setup to get Ray...

I made the switch to Zorin OS a while ago, and honestly? I haven't looked back. It’s sleek, fast, and does 99% of what I need. But then there’s that nagging 1%—that one specific piece of Windows software or that old utility that just refuses to run on Wine. Instead of dual-booting and constantly restarting my computer (which kills my workflow), I decided to set up a virtual machine using Oracle VirtualBox. It lets me...

Switching to Linux often means leaving behind some beloved proprietary software. For me, the biggest "will it work?" moment was my Elgato Stream Deck. It’s the brain of my setup—managing audio, launching apps, and controlling streams. I’m happy to report that not only does it work on Zorin OS, but the experience is also fantastic thanks to an open-source app called StreamController. However, getting there required a little bit of tinkering. Here is how I...

If you've ever looked at the Elgato Wave Link software on Windows with envy, wondering how to get that level of audio control on Linux, you're in the right place. Wave Link allows you to split your audio into distinct channels—Game, Music, Chat, System—so you can control their volumes independently for yourself and your stream. On Zorin OS (and other modern Linux distros), we can recreate this powerful routing using PipeWire and EasyEffects. In this...

Hey everyone! If you’ve recently upgraded to Zorin OS 18 (or you're rocking the underlying Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) and tried to get your PHP development environment running, you might have hit a frustrating wall. You know the one. You go to install or update PHP 8.3, expecting a smooth ride, and suddenly— BAM. The terminal hangs for a solid minute, and then drops a "Service Timeout" error on you. It looks something like this: Job...

For years, Windows was just the default choice for me. It was the operating system that was "just there." But recently, the relationship started to feel one-sided. After a lot of research, testing, and a two-week pilot program on my main machine, I have officially left the Microsoft ecosystem. Here is why I left, what I was looking for, and why Zorin OS ultimately won a permanent place on my hard drive. Why I Finally...