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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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?
Read moreFor 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 moreThis 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 moreKodi 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 moreThis 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.
Read moreThis 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 moreThe 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 moreIn 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 morennn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.
Read moreWe’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2019.
Read moreLast 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 moreThis 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 moreThis week I’m summarizing my experiences of another fundamental desktop activity: running an office suite.
Read moreGemini is a simple audio player that sports an integrated wallpaper changer.
Read moreMelody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.
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