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Vote for October!

  • How I customized my KDE Plasma 25
  • Why I don't like Dual Booting 13
  • GNOME wants to be a platform 22
  • Open Source apps for WIndows and mac OS 16
  • 2021-09-21
  • 76 votes
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Hey everyone!

It's time to vote on the topics you want to see in October!


It's going to be a packed month, with the usual 2 Linux News videos, and the review of KDE 5.23 and Ubuntu 21.10.

On top of that, I'll review the Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14, and maybe the JingPad A1, if it's not delayed again.

I'll also continue my series on user-friendly-ness, with KDE.


Now, you get to choose 2 out of these 4 videos:


- How I customized my KDE Plasma: a simple video, that has been requested quite a bit, on how I set up my Plasma desktop, in terms of panels, theme, scripts, icons, etc....


- Why I don't like Dual Booting: a personal opinion video on why I don't like having a dual boot setup, with windows or another Linux distro


- GNOME wants to be a platform: GNOME is moving away from themes, separating their design elements from GTK, and generally making decisions that favor the developers, and I think their goal is to become a platform, not just a desktop


- Open Source apps for WIndows and mac OS: a guide to help people transition to open alternatives, and maybe have an easier time switching to Linux afterwards


Start voting, and I'll pick the 2 that have the most votes ;)


Nick

Comments

Anonymous

Glad to see "Open Source apps for WIndows and mac OS" in the top 2. If you do make this video, IMHO the target audience should include mainstream as its 1. Going to be easier to swap to linux down the road if they already use crossplatform apps. 2. Will get exposed to some great apps! Stuff like the libre suite or kdenlive. Though, to be honest you'd probably know more as I'm noticing now I don't use very much thats not a development tool and dev tools are usually linux-first. I also live in the terminal a lot or use webapps. Syncthing is definetly something worth mentioning though. I have a folder I sync on all my machines called syncdrop, kind of like airdrop on IOS ecosystem. Great for passing stuff between my linux, android and mac devices. And there are sadly some painpoints such as no good replacement to ShareX on windows. Both mac and linux don't have a good equivalent. Flameshot is OKAY, but it doesn't hold a flame to ShareX's extensibility. I do use flameshot on mac/linux as its the best they've got. (I'm sure macOS has some app thats better, but I see no point in that if it doesn't also work on linux) Another painpoint is no good mail client. All we got is thunderbird but I'm not the biggest fan and sadly I'm pretty tied into using Tutanota desktop due to its encryption. I'm surprised someone hasn't made an app similar to gmail for foldering/filtering and general appearence + extension API. Most people use browsers for mail anyways these days. If I can give one recommendation is https://obsidian.md which IMO is the best markdown based note taking app. Think evernote or roam reasearch. Its also just got its mobile version in public beta. I'm a supporter of that app :)

Anonymous

KDE has unleashed so much for me. Would love to see more coverage.

thelinuxexperiment

There will at least be the update reviews, but I’d love to explore some more « advanced » stuff, like cool kwin Scripts or window rules