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The rest of this stuff is... somewhat dated.

My 2005 page "Towards Linux Desktop Comfort" explored some of the issues the Linux community is working on to increase Linux's desktop comfort level. (And Chris DiBona liked it :-)

Here are some links I point people to when bringing them up to speed on Unix/Linux.

I have tried Linux on a bunch of laptops. Here are my experiences.

I recently tried Linux on the Soyo Dragon SY-K7V. Here's how I got the sound working.

Several years ago I started contributing to the Wine project, and kept a log of what I worked on. Since then I've done more QA; see my Wine QA Project page.

Current-ish examples:

Demo of using opengl inside a Linux container (lxc)
Script to install debugging symbols for Ubuntu's kernel - needed for things like systemtap and oprofile. (Why isn't there a simple way to do this yet?)
Making screencasts on Ubuntu 12.04 - in which I keep my nine year old son happy by figuring out how to make and upload a "Let's Play" video to YouTube
Playing Audiobooks on a Car Stereo using Linux - how I keep from going crazy on the road, while keeping my son's 2nd language current

Here are a few old howtos:

And a few really old ones:

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