Plasma Got Tricks – I like big tricks and I cannot lie
I like being surprised. I like being impressed. I like seeing quality, forethought, vision, and innovation embedded in software products. I like seeing…
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Plasma 5.13 – Amazing Tux, How Sweet Plasma
Two years ago, the Plasma desktop was just another offering in the Linux pool, with a modern but overly complicated interface, bereft of…
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Elisa music player – Fur Elise
A bunch of days ago, the first stable version of Elisa, a new KDE-oriented music player, was released unto the wild. The program…
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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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Nine Plugins for the Keyboardio Programmable Keyboard
Once I reposition a few keys, what else could I want from a re-programmable keyboard? Not much, I used to think. Then I…
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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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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 Mobile: So far, so adequate
Ever since Plasma Active was released in 2012, I’ve been waiting for KDE to release another desktop environment for mobile devices. Last week,…
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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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Cataloging Collections with Tellico
KDE has such a rich ecosystem of applications that I am constantly discovering new ones. The best of these applications are simple and…
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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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