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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Reading Comics – Week 12

January 15, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

The best open source comic book readers for Linux are YACReader, MComix, and QComicBook. Let’s see how they perform on the Raspberry Pi 4.

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Raspberry Pi 4 - Home Theater

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Home Theater – Week 11

January 8, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

Kodi is free, open-source software for managing your local collection of movies, television shows, music, and photos. It’s the finest free home theatre software available.

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RPI4 - video playback

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Watching Video – Week 10

January 1, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

This week, I’m looking at straightforward video playback from locally stored media. Does the RPI4 have sufficient grunt to be a capable video player?

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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing PDFs – Week 9

December 18, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

In this week’s blog, Luke puts a wide range of PDF viewers under the microscope on the Raspberry Pi 4. How do they compare to the pre-installed solutions offered by Raspbian?

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Remote Display

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Remote Desktop – Week 8

December 11, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

Remote Desktop Control displays the screen of another computer on a local screen. For this article, the local screen is a Windows machine, the host is the RPI4.

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Raspberry Pi 4 e-book tools

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – e-book Tools – Week 7

December 4, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on excellent free and open source e-book software that runs on this single-board computer.

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RPI4 - LibreOffice

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Office Software – Week 6

November 27, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Office

This week I’m summarizing my experiences of another fundamental desktop activity: running an office suite.

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Email

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Email – Week 5

November 20, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Internet

Last week’s blog looked at whether the RPI4 cuts the mustard as a desktop web browser. It does although with a few reservations. This week’s blog focuses on another absolutely essential desktop activity. Managing your email.

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RPI4 - Surfing the internet

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Web Browsing – Week 4

November 13, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

This week’s blog focuses on an absolutely essential desktop activity. Surfing the web. A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there is not a desktop Linux distribution around that does not make a web browser available.

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RPI4 Video Streaming

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Video Streaming – Week 3

November 6, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. This week we look at video streaming on the RPI4.

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