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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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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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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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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Activities Activities Activities
Several weeks ago, my colleague Bruce posted an article on KDE/Plasma Activities, and this got me thinking again about this rather interesting and…
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Okular – An eye for an eye
Documents, documents, documents. Didn’t Steve Ballmer shout that at some expo some time ago? No? Never mind. Let’s talk about Okular instead, then.…
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Oh Snap – to boldly package where no one has packaged before
One of the great disadvantages of the Linux desktop is its software distribution mechanism. While the overall concept of central software repos works…
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Latte Dock – An anchor for your Plasma stuff?
You must test this new dock for KDE/Plasma, my friends told me the other day. I’m kidding. I do not have any friends.…
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Discover Discover
Nailing the perfect software design is tricky. It is all too easy to confuse simplicity of aesthetics with simplicity of functionality. A piece…
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22 things Amarok does: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the hope
Ask not what you can do for Amarok. Ask what Amarok can do for you! Many years ago, just the mention of this…
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LXQt usability review – We got a long way to go
And a short time to get there, I’m east bound, just watch LXQt run. Yes. In a fashion similar to my rather exhaustive…
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