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“KDE 6” has landed — worth the wait?

First impressions count, something many vividly remember from the KDE 4 days. How is the K Desktop Environment performing out of the box…

Mar 1

“KDE 6” has landed — worth the wait?

Mar 1

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Can we stay in full control of our personal computers and privacy please?

In a world in which computing is increasingly omnipresent, we are running the risk of losing control and privacy. If we like to stay in…

Jan 2, 2022

Can we stay in full control of our personal computers and privacy please?

Jan 2, 2022

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Simplicity to Empower You: Home Automation with helloSystem and Tasmota

In helloSystem we are following our three-layer UX design philosophy for Simplicity and Power. Simple things should be easy, but in a good…

Dec 12, 2021

Simplicity to Empower You: Home Automation with helloSystem and Tasmota

Dec 12, 2021

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Usability Point in Case: Why Simplification is the Ultimate Sophistication

Simple tasks like formatting or renaming a disk should be simple for users. Yet most desktop environments get this totally wrong…

Oct 8, 2021

Usability Point in Case: Why Simplification is the Ultimate Sophistication

Oct 8, 2021

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What is FreeBSD, actually? Think again.

Recently there was a challenge on Twitter to “Describe FreeBSD in three words only”. An operating system. Right? Berkeley Software…

Sep 17, 2021

What is FreeBSD, actually? Think again.

Sep 17, 2021

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helloSystem: Three-layer UX design philosophy for Simplicity and Power

One objective for helloSystem, an operating system welcoming to switchers from the Mac, is to be both easy to use for “mere mortals” yet…

Dec 26, 2020

helloSystem: Three-layer UX design philosophy for Simplicity and Power

Dec 26, 2020

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The desktop metaphor must be restored. It’s under attack!

Why I set out to build a desktop system operating system true to the desktop metaphor’s roots. One that removes the distractions, clutter…

Dec 6, 2020

The desktop metaphor must be restored. It’s under attack!

Dec 6, 2020

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hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals”

Can we make an open source system that is welcoming to swtichers from the Mac? Something that “just works” as intended, without the need…

Nov 15, 2020

hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals”

Nov 15, 2020

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FuryBSD: The “Ubuntu of BSD” has arrived, finally. Try it today!

I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. A really long time.

Aug 27, 2020

FuryBSD: The “Ubuntu of BSD” has arrived, finally. Try it today!

Aug 27, 2020

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Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing

Desktop computer systems, especially those based on Linux, are way more complicated than typical personal computers in the 80s and 90s. We…

Aug 14, 2020

Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing

Aug 14, 2020

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Author of #AppImage and contributor to hundreds of open source projects. #LinuxUsability, digital privacy, typography, computer history, software conservation

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