How Plasma Activities Save the Desktop
Plasma Activities — virtual desktops — remind me of word processor styles. Both improve work-flow, yet few ever use them. In fact, often…
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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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The State of Plasma
Over the years, my experience with KDE can best be described as a rollercoaster – on ice, with rocket thrusters. KDE3.5 was a…
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Make Fedora fonts better
Citizens of the Internet, welcome. Fonts in Linux are a rather neglected topic; there are things with a higher delight factor we could talk…
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GoboLinux: Questioning the Linux File Hierarchy
Sometimes, distinguishing one of the several hundred available Linux distributions from another seems impossible. That, however, is not the problem with GoboLinux. Admittedly,…
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Fedora upgrade – Does this work?
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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SoftMaker Office 2016 – Your alternative to LibreOffice?
Depending on how you look at it, the world of office suites for Linux is either very rich or very poor. As the rather…
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Signal Desktop Beta: Convenience Added to Security
Signal Private Messenger has been simplifying the encryption of voice and text messages for several years now. Not only is it a drop-in…
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Best Gnome distro of 2016
What? Dedoimedo, have you been drinking Peckham Spring lately? No, I have not. The reason why we have the Gnome desktop environment included…
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Best Xfce distro of 2016
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.…
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Best KDE/Plasma distro of 2016
The end is near. I mean, 2016 has less than a month left on its credit. We should now step back and contemplate.…
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Mofo Linux: The Raw Materials for Security
The developers of Mofo Linux talk a good game. From the name’s origin in abusive street slang to its self-description on the home…
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