The Linux Cast

Like most people, I was a mouse user for most of my computing career.

If you’re always finding the next reason not to switch, you’re not looking for solutions, you’re looking for excuses to stay complacent.

If you’ve ever built something from source, you’ve probably seen a makefile.

So, if you’ve been here before, you may notice there’s a new coat of paint.

For the vast majority of 2025, I was a very happy Hyprland user.

If you’re interested in having one (or more) workspace(s) on Hyprland that is floating only for any window that is spawned there, simply put this into your hyprland.conf: windowrule = float, workspace:5 windowrule = size 800 600, workspace:5 windowrule =…

I love file managers.

Back a few months ago, I was truly awed by Nextcloud.

I’ve been using Proton mail for almost a year now.

If you don’t follow my personal blog, you may not know this, but I’ve been conned into trying Emacs again.

One of the most important things I’ve learned in my 40 years on Earth is Markdown.

As I write this, I’m on day 4 of my next 2-year Linux Challenge.

I may end up making a video about this, but I honestly don’t know if I have enough content for that, so it goes here first.

So, if you do some serious Google work, you’ll probably find some of my earliest online work.

I’ve used Pocket Casts on Android for years.

In this article, I will show how to mount and unmount a drive on Linux.

A couple of years ago, I bought a used iPad on eBay.

You know me.

Latest videos from The Linux Cast YouTube channel.

So, I almost always purchase used tech.

Becoming a Reformed Tab Hoarder I have talked a lot about how I collect tabs.

Watching a smaller Linux YouTuber really made me think that I’ve gotten away from what I loved about Linux.

Everyone knows that I have a bit of a keyboard problem.

Note This was written ages ago, well before the previous website took a crap and before I did finally move back to a Window Manager.

So you may have noticed that there haven’t been many blog posts on this site in the last couple of months.

About six months ago, I left Vim behind.

A Trackball Problem For the last three years I have promoted the use of the Elecom Huge, a trackball mouse that I have adored from almost the moment I first bought one.

I have been a strong proponent of btrfs for years.

I’m a window manager guy.

I like these types of lists, so I’ve done a couple of videos like this.

I know.

I posted on Mastodon about a month ago (as of writing this) about my quest to find the perfect to-do application.

So a little while ago, I made a video about how I was going to attempt to ditch my mouse as much as possible and just use the keyboard to do most if not all of my computing.

So in recent videos (as of writing), I’ve been talking about how I have been trying out Hyprland, which is a Wayland compositor.

So I’ve been meaning to switch away from Gmail for quite some time.

If you’re older than 30, you might be just like me: you probably have a shitload of legacy media laying around your house.

If have watched my channel for a while, you may have noticed that throughout the last few weeks, I’ve been posting fewer videos.

This past week (as I am writing this) I came the closest I have ever come to quitting YouTube.

I’ve always kind of wanted a Stream Deck (yes, Stream, not Steam).

Written a couple weeks ago.

So, I bought an iPad.

There was a Twitter thread a few days ago from some people who work at YouTube, and in that thread, it came out that likes on Videos are more important than watch time, which is what all of us have been told for years.

Editor’s Note: This was written just a week into me using Nano.

This blog post was supposed to be done last week, but alas it got away from me.

I have a problem.

How many people do you think could write a blog post about their obsession with a color scheme?

I’m almost, almost, 2 months into the #6MonthLinuxChallenge.

Note: This was written ages ago, so any time references will be way off.

So, last week I wrote about how I was commissioned to try xmonad for some time.

I have a long and bloody history when it comes to the Xmonad window manager.