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Trần Trọng Thanh
Personal blog · int3ractive.comprogramminghardware
Trần Trọng Thanh writes I'm Thanh, a personal blog at int3ractive.com about programming and hardware. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Making the Best of MacBook Air Touchpad on Ubuntu”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on Linux desktops, including switching from macOS and things to do after installing. The comments discuss hardware support for that switch and which desktop environment resembles GNOME 2.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The writing playground and technical journal of Trần Trọng Thanh, Front End architect, JS developer, speaker, husband and father, from Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Most-linked posts?
- Making the Best of MacBook Air Touchpad on Ubuntu2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-17
What Hacker News says?
For nearly one month now I am working on switching from MacOS to linux desktop and after experimenting a lot, the switch is pretty near. I'm using a Lenovo T460s WQHD, and the most important advice I could give you: - First try with a VM is ok, but if you really plan to switch, try on REAL HARDWARE - most of the issues I had was not using hardware with Linux support (e.g. Wifi) - Don't try to "rebuild" MacOS or Wind…
Comment linking /blog/2018/make-the-best-of-macbook-touchpad-on-ubuntu/
on “I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple”Submitted Making the Best of MacBook Air Touchpad on Ubuntu as a story · 75 points
HN discussionI googled for some screenshots and MATE doesn't look like GNOME 2 to me. See https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_5&p=x&f=1 and https://int3ractive.com/blog/2019/things-to-do-after-install... I found some screenshots of MATE desktops from ten years ago. Those did look like GNOME2. However it appears that since then MATE chosen to embrace a new identity too.
Comment linking /blog/2019/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-mate/
on “Never update anything”Submitted Make the best of MacBook touchpad on Ubuntu as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Dual Booting Linux on a MacBook Air as a story · 2 points
HN discussion