I’ll show how I installed Linux (EndeavourOS, i.e., Arch) on a Dell Pro Max Tower T2. This is quite a powerful computer! Here are a few screenshots taken from Windows 11: Before installing Linux on this computer, I had to change the SSD SATA mode from RAID to AHCI, as documented in a previous blog […]
On some computers, such as the new Dell Pro Max Tower T2 and the older XPS 13, the SATA operation mode for the SSD is set to RAID by default. Linux will not recognize the SSD in RAID mode; you need to change it to AHCI. If you just change it to AHCI in BIOS, […]
This is a quick post about having nice fonts in Eclipse in Windows 11, based on my experience (maybe I had bad luck with the default configurations of Eclipse and/or Windows). When I bought my Acer Aspire Vero, I found Windows 11 installed, and now and then, I’m using Windows 11 (though I’m using Linux […]
I want to share some benchmarks for building an Eclipse project with Maven/Tycho. I built the project on Linux, Windows, and macOS (in particular, on my Mac Air M1 2020). I stressed that the macOS environment is an M1, the new Arm-based chip from Apple, which is said to be quite efficient and performant. However, […]
Although I’m not a big user of Windows, sometimes I use it to test my software and products. When switching to Windows Vista and Windows 7 I’ve always noticed a huge use of the disk. Here are some tricks I’ve used to reduce such use First of all make sure to disable indexing for the […]