Boxes for your Tuxes – Worth it?
A name was mentioned. An application was tested. In my Gnome apps review from several weeks back, one of the comments pointed out…
PureOS and Purity
I have been following the development of Purism‘s Librem 13 and 15 laptops for several years. Like many Linux users, I am attracted…
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Best Gnome distro of 2018
We talked about Xfce. We talked about Plasma. ‘Twas a turbulent year, and yet, it didn’t really have any defining Linux moments. More…
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Best KDE/Plasma distro of 2018
Let us Plasma. A few days ago, we talked about the bestest Xfce distro of 2018. It was an interesting but also somewhat…
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Best Xfce distro of 2018
The current calendar year is slowly converging toward its end. That means one thing! Well, two things. Festivities and liver stress testing for…
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Replacing LibreOffice’s Bibliography Tool With Zotero
If the Bibliography Database in LibreOffice were not so cumbersome and restrictive, then connections to an application like Zotero would be unnecessary. As…
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What about Gnome apps then?
A couple of weeks ago, we talked about KDE apps. I went through the default stack of programs available in the desktop environment,…
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Editing With Calibre
I’ve used Calibre to organize my ebooks for years. Despite an awkward and eccentric interface, it’s a comprehensive tool, which has every feature…
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KDE apps – Any good?
What is the one big advantage that Linux distributions have over Windows? If you ask me, that would be the fact that distributions…
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Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun
Linux is much like the stock market. Moments of happiness broken by crises. Or is the other way around? Never mind. Today shall…
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pyRenamer: Bulk Renaming Made Easy
Renaming files in batches is a rare task. Probably, that is why, with the exception of Xfce’s Thunar, desktop file managers can only…
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I want to talk to the (Font) Manager
You like fonts, don’t you? Well, we all do. So what happens if you want to install a fresh new font in your…
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Fstransform – Optimus Tux
File system conversion is not an everyday thing. For that matter, it’s not even an every year thing. But when you do need…
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