A Windows user at Computerworld tries Linux text editors, old and new. Linux buffs tend to scoff at one of the major reasons that Windows users like me haven’t switched yet: We don’t want to give up ...

There once was a time when video editing on Linux was an elusive beast. Luckily, we seem to have turned a corner in video editing on Linux with some exceptional pieces of software that have been ...

While Linux isn't strictly a text-only system, it has a reputation for making better use of plain text than any other operating system. While many tools cater to programmers, writers, and authors can ...

According to a study this week, Linux potentially infringes 283 patents, including 27 held by Microsoft. The study comes shortly after the revelation of a 2-year-old HP memo asserting that "Microsoft ...

LaTeX editors are essential tools for users who need to create and edit documents with precise formatting, particularly in academic and technical fields. For Linux users, there are several robust and ...

I've recently looked for a programmer editor that I can use to code in C(++) which works on Linux using its native compiler (the one from GCC, for instance) and on Windows using Visual Studio compiler ...

I never learned the vi cluster because I didn't need to. By the time I was really using vim (late 90s), it had already been updated to understand cursor keys. And Nethack, the other program that would ...

Photographers typically lean towards Windows or macOS for their editing needs. It’s just the way things work. However, you can buck the trend and turn to Linux with some pretty solid results; you just ...

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