Removing Hyper-V and Installing VirtualBox, VirtualBox Guest Add-On & Setting up shared folders

Hyper-V for any Linux distro is horrible (including Ubuntu). I've decided to go back to VirtualBox. The first thing to do is to remove Hyper-V. Removing Hyper-V To remove Hyper-V; go to Settings > Apps, and in the top right, you will see "Related Settings". And then click on Program & Features which will open …

Setting Up JBL T450BT Bluetooth Headphone On Debian Stretch

I have a JBL T450BT Headphone, which I thought it should work out of the box, unfortunately it didn't. My laptop connected to it but was not getting the stereo output (or High Fidelity Playback) in the headphones. I found a Debian Wiki for Bluetooth Headphone or A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile). It says to …

Office365 in Evolution Mail Client

Firstly you'll need to install the Evolution mail client and the Evolution Exchange plug-in for connecting to your Office365 account. sudo apt update && sudo apt install evolution evolution-ews Once this is installed, now you can set up your Office365 account. Launch your Evolution mail client. From the desktop menu bar, you can launch Evolution …

Install Nvidia Hybrid (Optimus) Graphics Drivers and Setting up Application on Debian Stretch

Introduction One of my main reason to switching from Ubuntu to Debian. Nvidia Hybrid Graphics card doesn't work properly on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Manually switching between your graphics and then rebooting to find out your stuck on the login page......and then the screen goes black :D. Contributing to this SteamOS is a Debian based distro. …

Moving The Home Directory to the Secondary HDD on Debian Stretch.

This laptop comes with two drives; one is an M.2 SSD, and the other is a mechanical drive. I used the instructions from Ubuntu Page "Partitioning/Home/Moving." But I'll give you my version of how I did it. If you didn't format and partition your drive; that's the first thing to do. I used gparted (and …

From Ubuntu to Debian

I've been using Ubuntu as my main OS for almost 10 years since Ubuntu 8.04 came out. Version 18.04 LTS just came out. Although Ubuntu is still good (I mean really good !!) distro, I was not happy with it. I've a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming and one of the biggest let down for …

Install & Setup Sudo In Debian Stretch

Sudo is not installed or setup by default in Debian (NOTE: Debian 10.1.0 has sudo installed by default....ignore the installation of sudo if using Debian 10.1.0). You will need to install and set up yourself (I had to do this because I created a bash script for installing all my application in Ubuntu which has …