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Installing Ubuntu Linux
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Installing Ubuntu Linux

Installing Ubuntu Linux is easier than you think. You can install Linux if you can install an app. This is how.

Is your dissatisfaction with the Windows operating system at an all-time high? You’ve probably had to deal with random reboots to upgrade, failed upgrades, unsupported hardware, crashes, and a general lack of flexibility and dependability.

If this describes your Windows experience, I’d like to introduce you to something better, more dependable, and free. Linux is that something, and it’s been my operating system of choice since 1997. Back in the day, Linux was a significant challenge to use and even more difficult to install.

That was back then, and this is now. Modern Linux, with a few minor exceptions (such as Gentoo and Arch), has become incredibly simple to use and even install.

I understand… “I can’t install an operating system!” you exclaim. On the contrary, my friend. You can install Linux if you can install an application.

Do you not believe me? Let me demonstrate using Ubuntu Desktop 22.04. I’ll be demonstrating with this iteration’s beta release, but the installation will be the same when the full release is available.

A word of caution: Make sure you install Ubuntu on a machine that can be spared. Save any important data from that system to an external drive, because whatever operating system and user account were previously on the machine will be lost once Ubuntu is installed.

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Microsoft is redesigning the 100 icons used in Windows 10 Ravensdale Digital

Microsoft is redesigning the 100 icons used in Windows 10

Microsoft is redesigning the 100 icons used for its apps and tools

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Microsoft users can expect to see over 100 new icons for its mobile apps and Windows utility tools in the coming year.

The company last year revealed 10 new Office icons, which attempted to “keep the tradition alive while gently pushing the envelope” with its Fluent Design System. Apps such as Outlook, Powerpoint, Word and Excel all retained a single letter in the icon (O, P, W, E and so on), but the letters were separated from the icon and appear to hover above it.

Microsoft has now scaled up that design change for over 100 icons, which include standalone apps, Windows utilities and mixed reality icons. The new icons were all “cut from the same cloth”, according to Jon Friedman, corporate vice president of design and research at Microsoft.

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Programming languages: Python overtakes Java on GitHub as Google Dart use soars Ravensdale Digital

Programming languages: Python overtakes Java on GitHub as Google Dart use soars

Programming languages: Python overtakes Java on GitHub as Google Dart use soars

The hit programming language Python has climbed over once-dominant Java to become the second most popular language on Microsoft-owned open-source code-sharing site GitHub.

Python now outranks Java based on the number of repository contributors, and by that metric Python is now second only to JavaScript, which has been in top spot since 2014, according to GitHub’s ‘State of the Octoverse’ report for 2019.

 

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