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 – Week 1
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.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Music Players – Week 2
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.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing Photos – Week 23
This week, I’m examining photo viewer software on the RPI4. There’s lots of open source photo viewers, so I focus on gThumb, feh, GPicView, and QuickViewer.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Screen Capture – Week 16
For this week’s blog, I turn to a desktop activity that I use fairly frequently. It’s screen capturing – sharing something on my computer screen with a colleague or friend. How does the Raspberry Pi 4 fare?
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Home Theater – Week 11
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.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Reading Comics – Week 12
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.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing PDFs – Week 9
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?
Read moreExcellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager
nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.
Read moreLinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2019
We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2019.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Email – Week 5
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.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Web Browsing – Week 4
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.
Read moreRaspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Office Software – Week 6
This week I’m summarizing my experiences of another fundamental desktop activity: running an office suite.
Read moreGemini – audio player with wallpaper changer
Gemini is a simple audio player that sports an integrated wallpaper changer.
Read moreMelody – music player written in Vala
Melody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.
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