This past week, after my last Ubuntu Unity article I posted, I received a lot of email regarding Ubuntu’s default desktop. Some of the emails were filled with praise about …
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It seems nearly every pundit, every mouthpiece on the planet has decided that the Linux desktop is a “mess.” This “downfall” of the Linux desktop started with GNOME 3 and …
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Unlike my usual fare, I’m going to cut to the chase and answer this question up front. The Chromebook (and it’s Linux-based Chromium OS) succeeds because it’s easy to use …
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When I was looking for the seven great features of OpenOffice and LibreOffice that you probably ignore, one of those features turned out to be variables. This week I’m going …
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Ubuntu 13.04 has recently hit and, from my perspective, it’s a “raring” hit. And though I find Unity one of the finest user interfaces available, there are those that haven’t …
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For many people Apache OpenOffice and Libre Office, which I’ll call collectively FOs (Free Offices suites) for short, are nothing but “free, as in free beer” substitutes of Microsoft Office …
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This past week my curiosity was piqued and I gave Ubuntu’s new X Server a spin. I assumed, given the infancy of the software, that it would be a train-wreck …
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Since taste is such a personal thing and specific types of users are drawn to specific types of distributions, it’s almost impossible to say “Distribution A is best suited for …
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It seems you can’t throw a stick these days without hitting one Linux “camp” hating another. One camp hates Canonical and Ubuntu, one camp hates GNOME, another hates FOSS and …
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There can be only one! The quote is from Highlander (as if any geek worth their weight in latinum wouldn’t know that). The sentiment – at least in terms of …
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