An Everyday Linux User Review Of Elementary OS 5.0 Juno

Elementary OS is currently riding high in the Distrowatch rankings and it has been a while since my last review so I thought it was high time I took another look. The tag line at the top of the Elementary OS website reads as “The fast, open and privacy respecting replacement for Windows and macOS”. In this review I am going to examine this claim in depth as well as other claims such as “Apps you need, without the ones you don’t”. The website states that the applications have been carefully considered to cater for your everyday needs so you can spend more time using your computer and less time cleaning up bloatware. Without further ado lets separate the fact from the fiction and explore Elementary OS with a virtual magnifying glass befitting a well known sleuth. After all it is “Elementary” my dear Watson. (Sorry, couldn’t resist).

Zeal – An Offline Documentation Browser For Software Developers And Linux Admins

Recent past i was traveling to my hometown very often for my personal work and i was facing difficulties to write article on 2DayGeek due to unavailable of internet as i don’t have proper internet facility because we are staying in remote area. I was thinking what is the alternate solution to fulfill this. I did small google search for offline documentation tool and got the awesome tool called “Zeal”. Yes, it’s true. It’s awesome tool and supports 194 application documents. I’m very much comfortable to work with zeal documentation as i’m getting whatever i want it. Also, we can use this if you want to save some bandwidth when you are running with bandwidth shortage. Also it won’t show any ads, it’s clean and easy to use.

Shotcut Video Editor Adds VA-API Encoding Support For Linux, Other Improvements

Shotcut, a free and open source video editor, was updated to version 18.11.13 yesterday. The new release includes VA-API encoding support on Linux, as well as a new option to use hardware encoder in the export screen, among other improvements. Shotcut is a free video editor for Linux, macOS and Windows. It includes a wide range of functions, from editing features like trimming, cutting, copying and pasting, to video effects or audio features like peak meter, loudness, waveform, volume control, audio filters, and so on. There's much more that Shotcut can do, including edit 4K videos, capture audio, it supports network streaming, and so on. See its features page for a in-depth list. The application, which uses Qt5 and makes use of the MLT Multimedia Framework, supports a wide range of formats thanks to FFmpeg, and it features an intuitive interface with multiple dockable panels. The latest Shotcut 18.11.13 adds VA-API encoding support for Linux (H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC codecs). Also in software:

• Rclone – Sync Files Directories from Different Cloud Storage

  Rclone is a command line program written in Go language, used to sync files and directories from different cloud storage providers such as: Amazon Drive, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Box, Ceph, DigitalOcean Spaces, Dropbox, FTP, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, etc. As you see, it supports multiple platforms, which makes it a useful tool to sync your data between servers or to a private storage.

• Odio – A Beautiful Open Source Radio Streaming App

  Odio is a new, free, beautiful, and open source software for streaming radio stations. It has an intuitive UI that resembles that of Spotify with a search field that sits in the top navigation bar for accessibility. The main app window is the Home tab which lists radio station suggestions as “Featured“. You can filter the listed radio stations by “Top Click” and “Highest Voted“. Apart from using the search field, you can search for radio stations by countries, languages, and tags.

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