Plasma 5.11 – Keep the momentum going
Just a few short days ago, the KDE team released Plasma 5.11, the latest edition of this desktop environment, plied with a range…
Replacing Audacity with KWave
KWave has been developed since 1998, yet few have heard of it. I only recently heard of it myself from writer and podcaster…
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It’s the Qt showdown
Qt desktops are many and varied. So one may ask, all right, if you have to choose one, which one? Well, the answer…
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Purism and Its Critics
Purism, the company that has delivered free laptops, is now hoping to do the same for phones. As I write, the fundraising campaign…
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OpenSUSE fonts – The sleeping beauty guide
As a whole, the Linux desktop isn’t the most polished family of products in the universe. Due to the chaotic nature of software…
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Budgie Desktop – You Shall Not Pass!
The quest for the ultimate desktop environment continues. In the last few months, we have looked at a range of Qt-based desktops, starting…
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KDE and the Menu Crisis
The menu crisis has been slow in coming — so slowly that few people are aware of it. Bit by bit, they have…
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Lumina desktop – Show me the light
The good thing about Qt (as a framework and technology) is that it powers so many interesting products seamlessly, quietly, unassumingly. The bad…
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Krunner: When Minimalism Goes Wrong
In most ways, KDE’s Plasma 5 is an improvement over earlier releases. It is more minimal, and many functions are easier to use…
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Nomad desktop – You’ll never walk alone
If you’ve been using Linux for a while, you have probably heard or even played with various desktop environments; Unity, Gnome, Plasma, Xfce,…
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Liri – Loves me, loves me not … at all
What does the world of Linux need more? Desktop environments? Nope. Ah, well, you’d be surprised, because a fresh new challenger appears! Its…
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LibreOffice: Professional Typography Fully Arrives
Three decades ago, StarDivision, the ancestor of LibreOffice and OpenOffice, was designed as an intermediate desktop publisher. However, many LibreOffice improvements are designed…
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Plasma secrets – Tips and tricks for the KDE desktop
I used the word secret. Well, it’s a bit misplaced. It’s not like Plasma really hides its options from the users so that…
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