I want to tell you the story of Ted. He is a friend who is passionate about computer science and a passionate Linux user. Every day, Ted starts his day by turning on his PC and starting the applications necessary for his daily work, let’s talk about the classic email clients, browsers, chats, and more. Every day, Ted repeats the[…]
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How to turn your Linux desktop into a middle ground between ChromeOS and macOS
Google with ChromeOS and Apple with macOS have shown us how it is possible to create functional graphic interfaces that are also beautiful and elegant. Here then is the question: why not transform our Linux desktop by taking the best of both? With the power of Linux and with the ductility of the KDE desktop environment, the challenge is far[…]
Read moreNeon themed KDE desktop with Nord color palette
We transform our Linux desktop into a system so beautiful, modern and futuristic as to make any macOS or Windows desktop like a pale. We start from an openSUSE base with KDE as a desktop environment and we apply some customizations to panels, windows, and icons in a very simple way (all via GUI, no command line). This video shows[…]
Read moreThe PinePhone. Open, friendly and smart
Welcome to 2020: Pine64 has announced that it is finally shipping its first opensource smartphone. The PinePhone is a modern device designed to run the main Linux distributions. The PinePhone doesn’t come with the OS pre-installed but with a factory test image for hardware test and verification. Like the amazing Linux tradition, users are expected to flash the operating system[…]
Read moreGrid Tiling. Not a tiling window manager like i3
i3 is the most famous tiling window manager designed for X11 and all the Linux people met him at least once in their life. It is fully configurable and it handles dynamically tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts. But the use of i3, or of another tiling window manager, for everyday use, is not for all. It is not easy at[…]
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