greggha
Canada
Intermediate experience with computer systems - personal/small business use (multiple platforms managed/maintained)
Linux Mint Versions (Active):
17.2 - Rafaela
17.3 - Rosa
Desktop Environments:
Cinnamon
KDE Plasma
XFCE4
RazorQt (customized)
KODI
Window Managers:
XFWM4
FVWM
KWin
OpenBox
Kernels:
3.19.0-33-generic (x86_64) - Works Great!
4.2.0-18-generic (x86_64) - Works Great!
4.2.0-22-generic (x86_64) - Works Great!
Tutorials
| Title | Score |
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Software reviews
| Software | Score |
|---|---|
| cheese "Great, basic and simple to use WebCam app. Covers most end-user functions and responds fast." |
5 |
| sublime-text "The best multi-format text editor! Crossplatform, fast, and easy to navigate." |
5 |
| midori "A great, low resource browser, that works great as an alternative to other browsers (esp. after a bad update, or during stability issues)." |
4 |
| libreoffice-calc "The features are almost identical to MS Excel, despite some navigational differences. I have switched entirely to LibreOffice and OpenOffice for business use." |
5 |
| keepass2 "Wish I had found this sooner. Saves a lot of time, and keeps info safe - unlike built-in password tools for Firefox/Chrome. KeePassX is the odler, unsupported predecessor." |
5 |
| bluefish "Every web developer should have this installed. It's lightweight, and great for quick tweaks and fixes, as well as for entire page development." |
5 |
| mc "Absolutely Great! Despite the difficult (but unavoidable) key combinations to remember, MC is the best way to manage files/directories from the commandline." |
5 |
| playonlinux "Works great, especially easy for beginners. The suggestion of creating a new "VM" (actually just a new C:\ Windows filepath; which can add clutter and duplicity) should be abandonned. Overall POL is a great way to manage WINE, patches and other software." |
4 |
| thunderbird "My favorite PC E-mail client - Cross platform, with extensive variety of useful apps and customizability! Highly Recommend for users with multiple email accounts" |
5 |
| clonezilla "Not sure why some people hate Clonzilla so much - it creates backup images that are crosscompatible with most other open-source part-manager programs - which makes recovery easy (not restricted to recovery from Clonzilla)." |
4 |
| system-config-lvm "Best GUI LVM tool. Simple interface to navigate - requires knowledge to utilize properly." |
4 |
| aptitude "Great when troubleshooting from TTY. Lacks detailed search functioning; but is otherwise robust (great for conflict management vs. apt)" |
4 |
| usb-creator-gtk "Does the job most of the time - usb-creator lacks in verbosity, as well as in formating features." |
3 |
| testdisk "TestDisk has saved my computer from otherwise HDD dooming errors. It's fast, and can locate many previous partition layouts." |
5 |
| meld "Very easy function; great for comparison, duplicate and directory comparison." |
5 |
| bleachbit "Best Software Manager Cleaning Program!" |
5 |
| clementine "Best Lean/Full-featured Media Player for Linux!" |
5 |
| evince "Unstable on several builds/distros, and prone to crashing. With a focus on a simple element of displaying media, the program should be patched well before release. Okular is my choice for PDF viewing." |
2 |
| keepassx "Excellent time saver!" |
5 |
| japa "very cool!" |
5 |
| gstreamer1.0-alsa "nice" |
5 |
| alsaplayer-esd "great!" |
5 |
| python-qt4-gl "Great!" |
4 |
| python-qt4-phonon "Great!" |
4 |
| qbittorrent "Great crossplatform, versatile torrent client!" |
5 |
| gimp "Great slection of tools/toolbars. The downside is the start-up toolbars floating around the main window in a disorderly and confusing way for new users. Initial launch should introduce basic functions and info about GIMP's customization." |
3 |
| gparted "Saves a lot of time and headaches with full GUID/MBR and custom partition table customization, modification and migration with all mainstream filesystems supported. Works great as a standalone, bootable rescue live OS." |
5 |
| wine "Needs documentation to appear upon loading and configuration until user/admin acknowledges the possibility for WINE to corrupt Windows local NTFS filesystems (all Windows partitions can be affected)." |
4 |
| firefox "Firefox." |
5 |