Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS is out! Inkscape hits their first point release, Firefox opens a relay, and XFCE moves to Gitlab.
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Timestamps:
05:15 POP! 20.04
09:42 Inkscape 1.0
12:37 Systemd homed
16:37 Excel on Ubuntu
19:57 Firefox Relay
21:57 XFCE moves to Gitlab
23:22 Ubuntu Studio 20.04
28:27 Behringer X-Touch One review
30:37 Windows VST’s in Linux
32:47 Shameless self promotion
35:12 Megapixel Pi
38:07 Emails
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Inkscape 1.0 (Rtheren)
- After more than 3 years of development, Inkscape 1.0 has been released with some major updates, new features and is incredibly performant!
- In my interview with Ted Gould, co-founder of Inkscape, in LWDW episode 175, he said that Inkscape 1.0 would include all of these new features.
- Inkscape 1.0 has been updated to GTK 3.0, HiDPI support, smoother performance, new live path effects and a native macOS app to name a few.
- Translations for over 20 languages were updated.
- New customizable themes, icons, fonts, and UI, including a dark mode.
- And the ability to fillet and chamfer with precise coordinates using the Corners Live Path Effect.
- Flathub being loaded out of the box is very nice!
- I didn’t know GNOME had implemented KDE’s RunOnDiscreteGPU bit.
- Don’t get me wrong, I do not mind it.
- Anything to give GNOME 3 more functionality is a-okay in my book, not to mention it desperately needs it.
- And for those leet haxors out there, you don’t have to touch the mouse.
- With the new Pop!_Shell, keyboard shortcuts allow you to launch an application, switch between applications, toggle settings, minimize, maximize . . .
- Being able to use Vim keyboard shortcuts is a nice touch!
- The auto-tiling feature is not only well implemented, but quite progressive.
- Who would have thought that you could have the workflow of a tiling window manager, like Awesome or i3, built into GNOME!
- Errything’s encrypted! Including your ssh keys.
- As long as I never notice it I won’t complain.
- We have talked about this feature coming to systemd, and I like the idea of having a sandboxed /home directory that is encrypted and easily portable.
- This will make Linux even more secure and more streamlined.
- What in the what is going on here?
- Running a Windows VM / container for Excel and Word?
- Linux Subsystem for Windows? ;-)
- Set your own email aliases with the help of the Mozilla crew.
- Nice, this is a great alternative to creating a separate email account just for internet account signups, and then forwarding the legit emails to a your main email account.
- They’re probably getting a ton more functionality without having to refactor their own cgit to do it.
- Good!
- If it takes away from the maintenance and adds more free time for actual development of XFCE proper, that’s great!
- This new hotness sports MyPaint, AVLDrums, Ubuntu Studio controls, Libreoffice Impress and several other changes.
- The latest LSP plugins are available in backports.
- Now let me talk about a curious change.
- “If the display compositor proves to be problematic, a simple alt-shift-F12..”
- Ima stop you right there.
- You are recommending something that has known problems (plasma) and telling people to disable it.
- Did I get that right?
- This is not about me being a XFCE fan human, nay, it’s about installing a full blown DM with all the bits and bugs that come along with it.
- Light or not, XFCE 4.12 nukes everything else from orbit in one important category, stability.
- That said, our audio production box boots to the console.
- I often have my animation/graphic students install Ubuntu Studio as their first Linux distro, because it uses XFCE, is stable, and runs beautifully on older computers.
- Needed to find out if it would Linux.
- It’s a control surface for controlling your DAW.
- A little one, with issues.
- A new way to get some of your Windows VST’s into Linux.
- Dude is actively fixing bugs.
- More options more better and this one seems rather frictionless.
- Being able to use your Windows plugins is the “but mah photoshop” of excuse in the music world.
Slice of Pi
- I could probably make this into a DSLR-like streaming webcam on a budget.
- And being able to do photography on a budget is always welcome.
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