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Issue 297 (January 2023) - Escape Windows 2023

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Escape Windows Linux Format style! We guide the first time Linux user through the install maze to escape Microsoft to software freedom. Discover how you can run Linux anywhere, any how and any time with one of the best beginner-friendly options: Elementary OS!

PLUS: discover Distrobox, get started with GiMP, open source RAW photography, touch-typing tutoring from the terminal, time-lapse photography, code on-line Python apps, ReactOS the open source Windows, the future of Audacity and loads more!

 Features

Escape Windows

(Nick Peers)
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RAW photography

(Karsten Gunther)
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Audacity of it!

(Neil Mohr)
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Answers

How to use real drives with virtual machines. Making use of hard drive SMART details. USB memory – we think not! Sorting out scripts, the Wheel explained, and more. (Neil Bothwick)
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 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

A Photo Tool Libre, Shutter Encoder, Passy, Open-Typer, Qtexttospeech, Thorium, Ásbrú, ET: Legacy, Cro-Mag Rally, Nvtop and Stretchly. (Mayank Sharma)
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 Tutorials

Terminal - GNU typist

(Shashank Sharma)
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Buttercup - passwords

(Nick Peers)
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ReactOS

(Michael Reed)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Gphoto - time-lapse

(Mike Bedford)
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Distrobox

(Mats Tage Axelsson)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

GIMP - basic editing

(Neil Mohr)
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Build a USB device

(Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Design and build a robot

(Les Pounder)
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Graph system settings

(Matt Holder)
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 Coding Academy

eBPF to monitor filesystems

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Code a django admin backend

(Matt Holder)
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 Reviews

Samsung 990 Pro 2TB

(Jeremy Laird)
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Phrozen Sonic Mighty 8k

(Denise Bertacchi)
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AntiX-22

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Voyager Live 22.10

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Ubuntu Unity 22.10

(Nate Drake)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

PiKISS v1.10

(Les Pounder)
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Note-taking outliners

Trilium, CherryTree, Zim, Joplin, QOwnNotes (Michael Reed)
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 More

News: News

Funding, funding, funding! Open source projects are rolling in it – money, that is! Arm is being silly, Google is to make its own OS, Godot has a foundation, and more! (Linux Format)
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News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Introduced by Les Pounder, who ponders where to go after Twitter eats itself. Eben Upton is going to restock Pi in time for autumn, plus more projects and boards. (Les Pounder)
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