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Have you been slowly falling down a rabbit hole of Stallman-like paranoia of computers ever since installing Ubuntu for the first time in 2007? Do you now abhor anything with …read more Continue reading Remote Screen Viewer is Text-Only
Ever since the world decided to transition from mechanical ball mice to optical mice, we have been blessed with computer pointing devices that don’t need regular cleaning and have much …read more Continue reading Gaming Mouse Becomes Digital Camera
Sometimes we cover works of extreme technological merit here at Hackaday, other times we cover interesting projects that while they might not lie at the bleeding edge are interesting enough …read more Continue reading Where Do You Want To Go Today? Perhaps To A Linux With A Familiar Interface?
Phoronix reports:
System76’s Pop!_OS Linux distribution already has their own “COSMIC” desktop that is based on GNOME, but moving ahead they are working on their own Rust-written desktop that is not based on GNOME or any existing desktop environment. … Continue reading System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME
Love ’em or hate ’em, sometimes your embedded project needs a menu system. Rather than reimplement things each and every time, [sgall17a] put together a simple GUI menu system in …read more Continue reading Simple GUI Menus in Micropython
The Wall Street Journal looks back to the days when Windows was “a loser in the world of computer games.” But to change that, Eric Engstrom and his cohorts “secretly hired programmers to get the work done, and they had to do an end run around partners … Continue reading Creator of DirectX Dies at Age 55
We’ve had something of an anniversary of late, and it’s one that will no doubt elicit a variety of reactions from our community. It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system that gave the majority of 1990s PC users their first taste of a desktop-based …read more
Continue reading Start Me Up: What Has The Windows 95 Desktop Given Us 25 Years Later?
Tom’s Hardware “put five of the most popular desktop environments up against each other in a no-holds-barred, seven-round face-off. We’ve rated GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, Awesome and Regolith on a 10-point scale based on Installation, Applications, User Exp… Continue reading Which Linux Desktop Environment is the Best?
Not every programmer likes creating GUI code. Most hacker types don’t mind a command line interface, but very few ordinary users appreciate them. However, if you write command line programs in Python, Gooey can help. By leveraging some Python features and a common Python idiom, you can convert a command …read more
Continue reading Linux Fu: Python GUIs for Command Line Programs (Almost) Instantly
These days, working with a display in software is fairly easy. Thanks to the convenience of the modern OS, we’re blessed with graphical user interfaces, where things such as buttons and windows and text are all taken care of for us. Of course, once you start to wander off the …read more
Continue reading Writing Characters Straight To The Linux Framebuffer