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RPI 4 Blog

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Music Players – Week 2

October 30, 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. For this week, Luke surveys music players on the RPI4.

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RPI 4 - Week 1

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Week 1

October 23, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

This is a weekly blog where I share my experiences of using the Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop replacement using free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: cacafire – Color ASCII Fire

October 7, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

The nights are drawing in. You want to feel warm and toasty. And nothing beats a log fire. cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.

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eye care

Safe Eyes – protect your eyes from eye strain

September 20, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Safe Eyes protect your eyes from eye strain using a simple and extensible break reminder. It’s designed to reduce and stop repetitive strain injury. It’s not just your eyes that need to take a break.

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Linux Candy: WallGen – image generator tool

August 19, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.

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Music visualization

GLava – OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for desktop windows or backgrounds

July 18, 2019 Luke Baker Desktop, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

GLava is an OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer primarily used for desktop windows or backgrounds. It’s free and open source software.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Tusk – Evernote desktop software

July 1, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Office, Productivity, Reviews, Utilities

Tusk is billed as a feature-laden, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app used by people in more than 140 countries. Let’s put it this application through its paces, and why it warrants inclusion in our “Excellent Utilities” series.

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Real Linux Desktop Experience with X410 and WSL?

May 29, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Office, Productivity, Reviews, Software

X410 is an X Window server for Windows 10. When you want to use X Window GUI apps on remote servers, simply run X410 and connect to your server via SSH with X11 forwarding. Here’s our review of X410 using ‘The Windows Subsystem for Linux’.

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KSmoothDock – excellent KDE Plasma 5 desktop panel with parabolic zooming

March 6, 2019 John O'Donnell Desktop, Reviews, Software

KSmoothDock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 5. While visually it is inspired by Mac OS X’s Dock, it aims to follow the traditional Linux model of desktop panel with the application menu, launchers, the pager, the task manager, the system tray and the clock.

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File Managers

Excellent GTK File Managers to Manage your Filesystem

March 4, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

We recently visited 15 Qt file managers. This article reviews 15 Gtk file managers.

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