Posts Tagged ‘Linux’
Using tablets as desktop external monitors
This post was originally written in 2018 and is out of date now. But a new and up-to-date post is coming soon. Both my work laptop and my personal laptop have 15.6-inch “full HD” screens, which are a decent size. But sometimes — especially when on the go — I’d like a little more screen…
Read More...Visual Studio Code
Free and open source … from Microsoft? Yep. That’s Visual Studio Code, and I switched to it as my primary coding editor from Sublime Text 3. Why? It’s got killer features that Sublime doesn’t offer, and it’s a great editor.
Read More...Get the red root prompt back in Linux Mint 19
The Linux terminal is one of those indispensable tools that I spent lots of time in. Linux Mint recently released a new version, 19, to replace 18.3. There were several good upgrades, including a major update to the Cinnamon window manager, so it was worthwhile to get the newer versions installed. Unfortunately, one of the…
Read More...Clementine
When Linux is your main desktop OS, there are lots of choices for music players but most don’t work well or have odd limitations. Clementine is simple, works well, and can handle my library.
Read More...Firefox
Firefox is back with its “Quantum” release … and it’s a real leap above the older versions.
Read More...Vagrant
Virtual machines can be a lot of work and tricky to set up. Vagrant takes out the guess work and gives you a consistent VM any time, anywhere.
Read More...Shutter
Programmers frequently need an easy way to do various screen shots. Shutter is an easy way to do various screen shots on Linux.
Read More...Linux Mint
With more flavors of Linux to choose from than Baskin-Robbins has ice cream, it’s hard to narrow it down. But Mint is my flavor of choice since 2013. The latest release, 19, has compelling new features and improvements.
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