In the last few years the Linux ecosystem has made a huge progress in term of quality of its desktop interface (or interfaceS since there are many alternatives) and it is almost at par with its commercial competitors. But it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any tweaks that still need to be implemented from time to time.
Today we deal with the installation of Infinality, a patched version of FontConfig that has been created to improve the visual rendering of any text font.
Disable the automatic reboot after a Windows update
One of the most frustrating aspects of Microsoft Windows is the automatic reboot after an important update. It is especially infuriating when you left the PC with a big download or a lengthy task ongoing and you return to find the login screen and your download/task interrupted.
Eventually, on the latest Windows versions, Microsoft implemented a prompt window that ask you if you want to delay the reboot:
But often it is not enough since it doesn’t offer the option to postpone the reboot indefinitely, but only for a specified time between 10 minutes and 4 hours, and more importantly it stays up only for a limited time and then, if it doesn’t get any input (that it may happen if you already left the PC), it takes the initiative to reboot the PC.
How to completely erase a file on Linux
As we have seen, simply deleting a file with a file manager or with ‘rm’ is not enough to really remove it from your hard disk and it is still possible to recover a deleted file.
Good news if you delete a file accidentally, but what can you do if you are in the opposite situation and you actually need to make sure that the file you are deleting doesn’t have chance to be recovered?
Fortunately in Linux there are some tools dedicated to totally erasing the file data: Shred and Wipe