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A quick dip into Linux Mint 20 (Cinnamon and MATE)

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 14 July, 2020 - 13:48 |14 July, 2020 Cool Apps, Linux Distros

Seeing as I’m a long-term user of Linux Mint, I thought it’d be good to have a quick look at Linux Mint 20 and share my thoughts on it. Continue reading →

How To: Use Photorec with DDRescue-GUI to recover deleted files

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 15 February, 2020 - 12:36 |22 August, 2022 Cool Apps, Linux Distros, Programming, Tutorials

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In this post, I demonstrate how to use DDRescue-GUI and Photorec to recover lost or deleted files. Continue reading →

Linux Mint 19.3: My review – mostly great with a few issues

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 3 February, 2020 - 17:53 |3 February, 2020 Cool Apps, Linux Distros

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In this post, I review Mint 19.3, making note of some of the good new features, and some of the minor issues I’ve had. Read this post to learn more. Continue reading →

The Darling Project: Running macOS apps on Linux!

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 21 May, 2019 - 15:24 |21 May, 2019 Cool Apps

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In this post, I give Darling a go, which is like WINE, except that it runs macOS apps in Linux, instead of Windows apps. Read this post to learn more. Continue reading →

Cygwin Part 2: DDRescue-GUI on Windows 10, sort of…

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 24 July, 2018 - 21:20 |19 November, 2022 Cool Apps, Linux Distros, Programming

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In this post, I get DDRescue-GUI working on Windows 10 with Cygwin! This is a major milestone in potential WIndows support. Read this post to learn more. Continue reading →

Cygwin review part 1: Running Linux programs… on Windows?

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 21 June, 2018 - 16:50 |21 June, 2018 Cool Apps, Linux Distros, Other Posts

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In this post, I test out Cygwin on Windows 7, just for fun, really. It’s interesting to see how well it worked. Part 2 is on the way! Continue reading →

KDE Plasma Mobile – Initial thoughts and basic review

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 21 February, 2018 - 13:46 |3 March, 2018 Cool Apps, Linux Distros, Upcoming programs

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I’ve been excitedly following KDE Plasma Mobile for a while now, and jumped at the chance to try it out :). Unfortunately, as I found out after talking to the dev team, virtualbox doesn’t play nicely with it. The issues you see/read about in this post are mostly virtualbox’s fault, not the KDE team’s, but enjoy anyway! Continue reading →

wxPython 4 is out! Proper Python 3.x support incoming.

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 5 February, 2018 - 22:05 |5 February, 2018 Cool Apps, Programming, Upcoming programs

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wxPython 4.x is out! This means I can now do what I wanted and have fully-working Python 3.x support for the next releases of my programs. Kudos to the wxPython dev team! Continue reading →

Flatpak: Ideal for furniture, also a good package manager

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 24 April, 2017 - 07:00 |24 April, 2017 Cool Apps, Linux Distros, Upcoming programs

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Flatpak: An upcoming new package manager for Linux, promises to solve some of the common woes with maintaining and upgrading Linux. Read this post for more. Continue reading →

Wayland: The Replacement for The Linux X11 Window Server

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 20 March, 2017 - 07:00 |20 March, 2017 Cool Apps, Upcoming programs

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Wayland is an up-and-coming replacement for Xorg, and will bring a lot of important new features to Linux. Read this article to learn more. Continue reading →

Category Archives: Cool Apps

A quick dip into Linux Mint 20 (Cinnamon and MATE)

How To: Use Photorec with DDRescue-GUI to recover deleted files

Linux Mint 19.3: My review – mostly great with a few issues

The Darling Project: Running macOS apps on Linux!

Cygwin Part 2: DDRescue-GUI on Windows 10, sort of…

Cygwin review part 1: Running Linux programs… on Windows?

KDE Plasma Mobile – Initial thoughts and basic review

wxPython 4 is out! Proper Python 3.x support incoming.

Flatpak: Ideal for furniture, also a good package manager

Wayland: The Replacement for The Linux X11 Window Server

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