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Gaming with Total Silence on Linux on the Couch!

Last Updated on December 22, 2025 @ 10:07 am (PST)

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...

Making Life Easier: A Friendly Guide to My Favorite Scripts on Linux

Last Updated on December 22, 2025 @ 9:42 am (PST)

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...

Leveling Up: Making My Linux PC a Gaming Beast

Last Updated on December 22, 2025 @ 8:42 am (PST)

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...

Stuck on the PHP 8.3 FPM Timeout in Zorin OS 18? Here’s the Fix!

Last Updated on December 08, 2025 @ 10:13 am (PST)

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...

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