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What about Gnome apps then?

What about Gnome apps then?

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about KDE apps. I went through the default stack of programs available in the desktop environment,…

KDE apps – Any good?

KDE apps – Any good?

What is the one big advantage that Linux distributions have over Windows? If you ask me, that would be the fact that distributions…

Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun

Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun

Linux is much like the stock market. Moments of happiness broken by crises. Or is the other way around? Never mind. Today shall…

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Spotify & Local Files problems on Linux

26th November 2016 by dedoimedo 3 comments

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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Snap! — Beyond teaching coding to would-be programmers

30th July 2016 by Paul Brown 6 comments

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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Dump Scratch — Use Blockly or Snap! instead

12th July 2016 by Paul Brown 16 comments

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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Build Interactive Stories with Ren’Py

21st May 2016 by Paul Brown 1 comment

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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Tailor-made Distros with SUSE Studio

11th May 2016 by Paul Brown No comments.

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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Taming Plasma

27th April 2016 by dedoimedo No comments.

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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Linux Mint security – 28 days later

9th April 2016 by dedoimedo 3 comments

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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Mining for Education

4th April 2016 by Paul Brown 2 comments

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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LibreOffice Logic

30th March 2016 by Bruce Byfield 3 comments

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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Inkscape’s Hidden Little Feature: Mesh Gradients

27th February 2016 by Paul Brown 8 comments

Inkscape has a secret, something that is literally hidden away. There is no icon for it in the toolbar and no option in…

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Build your own YouTube-like platform in 45 minutes or less

13th February 2016 by Paul Brown 19 comments

Reddit is full of YouTube drama these days: users are accusing each other of plagiarism, and things have even moved beyond legal sabre-rattling…

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Video: Installing Coreboot — HOWTO & WHYTO

3rd February 2016 by Paul Brown 1 comment

That the UEFI firmware should die in a fire and that its instigators for its adoption should hang their collective heads in shame…

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