People have been asking Adobe to make Creative Suite available on Linux for several years now, but Adobe has been adamant about its answer: no. Why not? Most likely because the market share is too small to be worth the effort. But the demographic is there. The overlap between “Linux users” and “creative users” is […]
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You’re a writer, but your budget is tight. You’ve already switched to Linux, and all goes well, until you sit down at your desk to start work on your latest screenplay. All of a sudden, it hits you. Final Draft is not available; you don’t have a dedicated app for completing your script! What will […]
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Not too long ago, providing people with an easy way to back up data on remote machines was novel. Now, we’ve come to expect it. Dropbox and other companies have made the task simple. Apple, Google, and Microsoft all provide their own ways of backing up your data. On Linux, the situation is a bit […]
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Like Windows and Mac OS X, Linux offers a wealth of options for anyone wanting to tweak their operating system. But the nature of the open source world means that you can also create your own distro, burn it to disc and install it. These four tools will get you started. Tweaking Linux the Easy […]
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I regularly find myself writing about USB sticks. Why am I currently obsessing over these cheap dongles, which many have come to regard as fundamentally obsolete? Because they’re still useful. Sure, you’re probably not going to use them to store your files on. In that regard, they’ve been utterly supplanted by cloud storage services like […]
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Oh no, something seems to be going wrong with your computer! On Windows, you bring up the task manager using Ctrl + Alt + Delete to confirm your suspicions. Then you use close whichever program is running amok. But now you’re using Linux, and that keyboard shortcut isn’t doing what you expected. Things are different in […]
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