Figured out how to increase the font scale – and smoothen out the fonts – in the Spotify Linux client. It goes something like this: $ /usr/lib64/spotify-client/spotify --enable-font-antialiasing --force-device-scale-factor=1.25 Much the same arguments as from Chromium. 🙂 You can set the parameters on the application launcher by editing /usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop Exec=sh -c "spotify %U --enable-font-antialiasing --force-device-scale-factor=1.1" Make sure you restart gnome-shell – it seems to otherwise cache entries. This trick even works for the WordPress client app for desktop!

Note – I wrote this post whilst I still had Windows 8.1. Now that I have upgraded to Windows 10, things are different – since .NET 4.6 RTM is part of Windows! Windows 10 readers should note that it is possible to install the Windows XP C++ tools in Visual Studio, which will install the Windows SDK 7.1, but not the VC compilers. If you still need the older VC compilers, I discovered a workaround to get them on Windows 10!

“But it was working yesterday” Locked out of your Fedora installation? Maybe because you’ve just reinstalled Windows (again). Or you’ve been playing with some alternate UEFI boot loaders. But, there is (inevitably) a way to fix it. Disclaimer: Some stuff might be wrong. I am still learning. Start by booting the machine with a live Fedora system. The live system should be started in EFI mode. Once booted,