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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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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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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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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