Canonical sometimes listens to its user base, while other times simply it goes straight on its way. This has happened for the graphic environment of Unity (regret by many!) and the same is happening for several technological implementations in the latest revisions of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Snap is a magnificent idea with a still immature realization. It is[…]
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Minetest. A Minecraft-inspired game for Linux
Minetest, an infinite-world block open-source Minecraft style game with many games, that gives you the ability to mod a game to your liking, to make your own game, or to play on a multiplayer server. Minecraft was created by Markus “Notch” Persson in the Java programming language and was released as a public alpha for personal computers in 2009 before[…]
Read morePop!_OS. Ubuntu without the Snap system
Ubuntu is certainly, with good credit, one of the most popular Linux distributions and one of the ones that most contributed to the spread of Linux in the desktop world. Unfortunately, as we well know, in the latest Ubuntu releases the Snap package system is by default which, despite all the good intentions of this world, is still far from[…]
Read moreIrfanView in Ubuntu Software as a snap
Many Windows users, when coming to Linux, feel the lack of some everyday used applications. One of the most searched is IrfanView, a powerful graphic viewer available only for Windows systems. Fast and light-weight, IrfanView is freeware for non-commercial use and it is designed to be simple but powerful. IrfanView has some unique and interesting features, it was the first[…]
Read moreHow to move ‘snap’ folder away from home location in Linux
In the past, I had a lot of troubles with the snap ecosystem and I suggested to not use it for the production systems. All my first attempts to use snap failed, all my PCs became unresponsive, all the applications in snap version proved to be much slower than others. But I want to give snap another chance, so I’m[…]
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