I’m very very sorry to say that I just edited a picture in Micrsoft Paint on my virtual machine (running Win 2K) because it was quicker than loading and using the GIMP.
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Something I seem to have neglected to mention in my posts about freedom is Adobe Flash. This is a facility that is available for Linux but the Adobe version, which is needed for YouTube etc, is not open source. This is another situation where I am torn about whether to stop using it or not. [...]
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Ok, so I’ve been contemplating the practicality of adjusting my computer usage to reduce my “proprietory footprint” and I figured it was worth re-visiting this topic to mention the conclusions I’ve had so far. In order to do this I will address each of the forementioned issues and describe what I can see to do [...]
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I listen to a lot of podcasts, mainly about Linux, but also about computing technology and free software. When I first began using GNU/Linux operating systems it was for two reasons.
My first and primary reason is because it gave me an alternative to Microsoft Windows. I have been firmly against Microsoft OSs since I was [...]
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