Recent content by JoeBlack

Newbies to Linux are likely to have come from a Windows/Mac-land where most software is commercial/paid to get bugs ironed out (not that it makes them perfect, but there's a general degree of polish and focus I feel), a place where choice is limited.... I keep saying this to my mac/win friends...

I've found this list of FOSS Remote Desktop apps: https://fosspost.org/open-source-remote-desktop/ TigerVNC Rdesktop FreeRDP Remmina Apache Guacamole I personally use Anydesk. But I'm no IT professional, so I use it for free.

I use AdAway on my android from the F-Droid store. It actually blocks ads from all the apps! Quite awesome. There were so many "free" apps on the Google Play store that spam ads everytime you touch the screen! And this seems to just wipe them all out!

"Mac:... I have shortcuts too..." Yes, Macs have shortcuts too... but keys on their butterfly keyboard Laptops stop working from time to time and it drives me %#*&()@%& bananas. What's the point of awesome shortcuts if the keys don't work? I have to use a blue-tooth keyboard to get keys &...

I use a PopOS/Gnome and a Gnome extension for window managing - GTile. I've worked out these ONE handed shortcuts, and now I can't live without it. I even had to find the equivalent for Mac (Magnet). Super+Alt (with thumb) + Key to make the window snap with 1 other finger. Q,A (top and bottom...

I thought I was a power user, but after seeing the Linux community, they have "POWER USERS" - It seems more apparent that a fast efficient and amazing work flow revolves around keyboard commands, shortcuts... ya know... THE KEYBOARD... rather than touch-whatever. I saw a side by side video of 2...

In a game of spot the difference (and there may be more) I noticed the difference was: gvisoc: hardware choices by Apple, Linux has always been a great OS to run in a Mac. Only hindered by the weird and non-standard security chips, joshmark: Apple's hardware choices have kept Linux from...

btw, what's that command you used to get that OS Kernal readout there? I just saw lots of terminals and assumed you were a "power user" lol! InstantOS I think is meant to be super fast, lighter than xfce/lxde etc, keyboard command oriented, true power user geared OS with some funky colours to boot.

Kinda reminds me of https://instantos.io/ in some way - Have you tried it?

Yeah, as I've mentioned in other posts, there's actually a piece of software that's proprietary that I like and use and wish it was on Linux. Adobe were getting too comfortable and Affinity produced something more innovative and superior at its core IMHO. Adobe was just adding more tools to an...

I've heard you mention this rig a few time. I'm kind of curious to see what it looks like. Initially I was picturing... Or whether it looked like a super computer, or a mac-mini or whether it was all virtual, or just installed on a single harddrive, or massive harddrive array? And what do...

Does the T&C/licence say "You do not own this Mac, you're only licensed to us it. It's not your personal computer!" - Just clarifying what I said: I was making guesses and asking a question rather than making an argument. I wasn't sure of the terms at the time. But since then, I've found out...

As the title is asking... Why are Linux and Windows in the same PC boat (as i generally see around the inter-webs), and that PC is always pitted against Mac(intosh)? Is it that Linux is so small that Windows is synonymous with PC anyway? Or is it suggesting that a Mac is NOT a personal computer...

I agree that an OS doesn't need maximum market share to be a good OS. And I agree that there's a lot of freedom in using Linux that doesn't come with Mac/Win. However, I think marketshare has other valuable benefits such as: 1. COMPATIBILITY: There's a piece of software I'm using on Mac that I...