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…
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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The Keyboardio Model 01: Six Months After
One trouble with software and hardware reviews is that they are usually based on a few days of testing. If any long term…
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Steam Play – Let the games begin
Linux gaming news are always a good thing. An exciting and important thing. The more legitimacy, popularity and quality the Linux world gets,…
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In Open Hardware, “Free as in Beer” Matters
Richard M. Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, is famously fond of distinguishing between “free as in freedom” and “free as…
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Kdenlive 18.08 Beta – Film Noir
Kdenlive is my video editor de jour since the dawn of civilization, or rather, as far back as my video editing attempts go.…
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