What? Dedoimedo, have you been drinking Peckham Spring lately? No, I have not. The reason why we have the Gnome desktop environment included…
Let us continue where we started with the KDE/Plasma nominations. It is time to vector our all-seeing eye toward another desktop environment – Xfce.…
The end is near. I mean, 2016 has less than a month left on its credit. We should now step back and contemplate.…
Linux is highly portable. Fact. On the other hand, Linux software is the least portable technology in the world. Try running Firefox designed for…
Increased security often comes at a price in Linux distributions. Tails, for example, allows anonymous browsing at the cost of running from a…
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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The classical desktop, consisting of a menu, panel, and a workspace, has been obsolete for years. What was adequate in the days of…
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The idea of upgrading your operating system from one version to another is an interesting one. It implies you will be changing your…
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Roughly a month ago, I reviewed Spotify here on OCS-Mag, testing the recently revived Ubuntu version. My experience was mixed. While the media player…
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Following on from our prior article and one more step in my lifelong (?) quest to rectify all the sillines that goes into…
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The people who make Scratch have migrated it to Flash. This is the most bonkers, hare-brained, backward idea they could have had. Migrating…
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Storytelling is the cultural cornerstone of human civilization. If I were even more pedantic than I already am, I would tell you about…
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One of the things about Linux is it’s super-customisable. If you would like to go deeper than picking your desktop and the colour…
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How does one go about taming Plasma? Well, that seems to be a recurring question I get asked in the emails. People are…
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Ignore the actual time count. Answer me this: When would you feel more secure, knowing that your favorite distribution has been attacked and…
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How would you feel if all the food in your child’s school canteen were provided by one manufacturer of packaged snacks and soft…
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When you switch to LibreOffice, you can usually assume that all the features available in other office suites are available. They might have…
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