Are Systrays Pointless (I Went Years Without Using Them)
Most desktop environments and window managers have a system tray (systray) where certain applications choose to minimize to...but are systrays necessary? Should devs stop designing their apps to sit in the systray?
It's time for another one of my tier list rankings. This time, I'm going to give my tier list ranking for desktop environments available on Linux. Two things to note are (1) I'm not a desktop environment user myself, and (2) these kinds of tier list videos are all subjective opinion.
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Brave's new search engine recently had it's public launch. Brave, the makers of the Brave Browser, aim to provide a truly privacy-focused search engine that serves independent results rather than pulling from Google or Bing. Also, Brave wants to serve search results free from bias and without pushing any political agendas.
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Just a few quick thoughts on trolls while driving to the gym. We all have to deal with trolls on the Internet. What drives a troll? What makes the troll tick? How do you combat a troll?
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Devuan is a "protest distro" that is a fork of Debian but without systemd. I've never looked at Devuan before, so I downloaded their standard desktop-live ISO and run through a quick installation. It comes with the XFCE desktop and sysvinit, but their are other options for desktop environments and init systems if you so choose.
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I'm taking the recently released Linux Lite 4.8 for spin. This is an Ubuntu-based distro that uses the Xfce desktop environment. It is light and fast. And this version is aimed at winning over those folks that are still using Windows 7.
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Broot is a free and open source command line utility that is a great alternative to the standard "tree" command. It allows you to view the directory structure, perform fuzzy searches, run commands on the selected files or directories, and much more. Broot can replace your "ls" command.
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DeaDBeeF has been my preferred GUI music player for many years now. Despite the funny name, it is quite a powerful little player. It is available on Linux, BSD, macOS and other Unix-like operating systems. It is modular in nature and allows for the creation and installation of third-party plugins.
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On this edition of Hey DT!
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► 5:03 Is it possible to put DTOS in the AUR?
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