A guided installation using a small virtual display. If you’ve ever tried to install elementary OS 6 “Odin” on VMware Workstation, you may have given up out of frustration. When you first fire up your new virtual machine, the screen resolution is a tiny 800x600 — too small for the…

A disabled feature may give your laptop a longer life. A few weeks ago, my laptop forgot how to suspend. I closed the lid, waited for the light to power off as expected, and it should have safely been asleep. Later I opened the lid, and… what? The laptop posted…

Hello, hello. First time. I’m Sean! Nice to meet you! 👋 Greetings to the Medium family of writers. Today I join your ranks as a long-time contributor to free and open source software (FOSS). For years and years, I’ve only written on my own publication at bluesabre.org. …