Linux desktops for minimalists: Getting started with LXQt and LXDE
Preserving and resurrecting old computers is a popular part of the Linux hacker’s ethos, and one way to help make that possible is with a desktop environment that doesn’t use up scarce system resources. After all, the fact that a current version of Linux can run effectively on a computer over 15 years old is quite a feat, but it doesn’t make the CPU and RAM any better than the day they were slotted in. There are...
Emacs for Vim users: Getting started with the Spacemacs text editor
I use Vim a lot. I’m a site reliability engineer (SRE), and Vim is the one thing I know I can access on every machine in our fleet. I also like Emacs, with its wide variety of useful packages, ease of extending, and its many built-in tools. Because they each have their own set of commands, I have to actively switch codes in my head (usually after typing :wq in Emacs or trying to C+X in Vim). read...
