Plasma widgets – Beltway Bandit Unlimited
The concept of addons is an interesting one. At some point over the past decade or two, companies developing (successful) software realized that…
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Krita – Ars longa, vita brevis?
Krita? GIMP? Darmok and Jelad at Tanagra. So, if you are into any kind of image manipulation, you probably have heard of GIMP,…
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The Magnificent Seven unique Linux projects
While the technology landscape feels big, complex and colorful, the actual variation in creativity and uniqueness isn’t that huge. Often, ideas build upon…
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IU not UI – Want a great desktop? Use the brain.
Our friend William Shakespeare once wrote: To be or not to be, we must rejoice, for our GUI is so well-designed, the user…
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Plasma – The road to perfection is paved with bugs
Call it bias, call it taste, I like the Plasma desktop environment. After many years, I feel KDE is finally regaining some of…
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Plasma 5.12 – Long Term Sweetness?
Roughly a year ago, I wrote my fairly lengthy State of Plasma article, which examined the KDE’s fifth major desktop environment incarnation in…
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Best Xfce distro of 2017
One more. After exploring the ups and downs of the Gnome and KDE/Plasma crop of this year, we now focus on what Xfce…
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Best KDE/Plasma distro of 2017
Plasma me, Plasma you, a-ha, there was nothing we could do. But wait! Yes we can. Let us glimpse back upon Year 2017,…
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Best Gnome distro of 2017
Following in the best of traditions, it is that time of the year, when we wrap up the previous twelve months of hard…
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Open Linux – Beyond distributions, regressions and rivalry
I love Linux. Which is why, whenever there’s a new distro release and it’s less than optimal (read, horrible), a unicorn dies somewhere.…
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Flatpak – St. Distro’s Package
The word best used to describe Linux is variety. That, or fragmentation. Whichever part of the desktop system you choose, from the environment…
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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…
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