5 Honest Reasons To Avoid Switching to Linux Linux has been a wonderful operating system for many people. It’s free, it’s open source, it’s customizable, secure and much more. We, like many other open source enthusiasts around the world as well, have been trying to convince people to switch to Linux from Windows for many reasons. These reasons should be all known for […] December 7, 2021December 7, 2021
Windows vs Linux: 7 Reasons to Switch to Linux The view that Linux is a server operating system only is an outdated view. There are hundreds of Linux distributions designed specifically to be beneficial for the average desktop/laptop user, and it is perhaps time you consider switching to Linux from Windows. When we talk about switching to Linux, we talk about using distributions like […] December 4, 2021December 6, 2021
Linux is Everywhere: 5 Places Where You Didn’t Know It’s There Have you every wondered where is Linux? What key sectors does it power and in what areas is it commonly used? Many people, to this very day, think that Linux is nothing more than a server operating system for advanced users, and nothing more. But that’s not true. Linux can be found in unusual places […] November 28, 2021November 28, 2021
Linux Mint vs Ubuntu: Why Linux Mint is Better Ubuntu is the most famous Linux distribution in the world. Its development started back in 2004. It is based on Debian distribution, which is why Ubuntu also uses the dpkg packaging system (And .deb package format) along with the apt packager manager. Linux Mint, on the other hand, is based on Ubuntu. Its development started […] November 25, 2021January 22, 2024
5 Years Later, Unity Desktop Is Forming an Accidental Renaissance It has been 4 and half years since Canonical announced their decisions to drop Unity desktop for GNOME, drop the convergence experience and shift focus towards the cloud and IoT devices. The Linux community reactions back then were mixed. Some people liked GNOME and some people didn’t. Those who didn’t switched to other desktops such […] November 20, 2021November 20, 2021
Top 7 Open Source Animation Software Proprietary software solutions have dominated the 3D/2D animation landscape for most of the last 30 years. The animation software area is one of the sectors where proprietary solutions are gatekeeping the entire industry; it takes tens and hundreds of dollars to get good working software, and hence, individual animators or small-sized studios don’t even have […] November 20, 2021February 10, 2024
Unsplash Wallpapers is an Unsplash Desktop Open Source App You may have heard about Unspalsh; a very famous online service that provides high-quality images and wallpapers under a semi-open license. Unsplash is important for website creators, app designers and basically anyone who wants to get free wallpapers without having to deal with licensing issues (No attribution required, and even commercial usage of Unsplash images […] November 17, 2021November 18, 2021
Top 3 Open Source Math Software & Matlab Alternatives Perhaps you have heard about Matlab, and how great it can be used for mathematics, modeling, computing and simulation tasks. It is indeed a great software, but it has one deadly flow: It is proprietary, and requires a very expensive license to use it. That’s why, open source alternatives emerged to take the place of […] November 15, 2021December 24, 2023
Revive Old Computers With These 5 Lightweight Linux Distributions Many users may have a set of old computers lying around, which they have accumulated over the years. You can revive these old computers with lightweight Linux distributions instead of throwing them in the trash. There are Linux distributions for everything. … And lightweight Linux distributions for old hardware are no exemption. Now a lot […] November 12, 2021February 8, 2024
Mark Text is a Minimal Open Source Markdown Editor If you heavily practice writing, then you should definitely give Markdown a try in general. It is a very neat syntax language that will help you take your texts to the next level, especially if you were a developer looking to write documentation or articles for your projects. Office suites such as LibreOffice may be […] October 26, 2021October 30, 2021
FOSS Torrents Is Your Gate For Linux Distributions Torrents Torrents are very common between users downloading a Linux distribution. Typically, a Linux distribution’s ISO size varies between 1GB and 4.9GB, with 2.5GB being the average. Hence, normal HTTP connection could take a long time to finish downloading it. Torrents on the other hand are much faster, because users are downloading from their peers, who […] October 12, 2021December 14, 2021
Open Source Tax Software For Filling US Taxes Open source software can be useful for all types of tasks, even filling tax forms if you are a US resident. Taxes in the United States are a little bit complicated compared to other countries, and there are federal taxes and state taxes, and one will need to fill out many different forms – depending […] October 8, 2021October 25, 2023
Onyx Boox Note 3 Is A Powerful Android Ebook Reader Ebook readers have been on a steady rise in recent years, with people moving away from traditional book reading into the digitalized experience for many reasons: Saving budget & space, getting more comfort while reading for long hours and also unlocking access to better features than the normal reading process (E.g note taking, sharing, highlighting, […] September 8, 2021February 1, 2022
20 GNOME Extensions To Perfectly Balance GNOME 40 GNOME 40 was released a few months ago with many new features and a revamped desktop experience. Many Linux distributions like Arch and Fedora already have it in their official repositories, while others like Ubuntu are about to get it in the upcoming releases. In any case, you may feel somehow limited by the default […] September 4, 2021March 15, 2022