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Atom.io v1 Atom facts + 1 year of open source!

2015-05-08 / / 0 Comments
Hey there you guys. I hope you are doing well on this fine day

Atom celebrated it’s first year as an open source on the 6th of May by releasing an info-graphic. It contains facts and numbers that are truly interesting!!

Interesting facts

I never would have guessed that most Atom users were Mac users! Or that it has been downloaded 750.000 times!! for full info click this post over here.

Great read

As I was browsing the Atom blog I came across this rather interesting announcement: That the support for deprecated API’s will end on June 1st.
(Sounds really exciting huh? No! Not really!) but the other part of the announcement is what really matters. Announcing that V1.0 milestone will be released sometime later that month (June).
Atom v1.0 will be released in June. That’s according to the official atom blog.

Future hopes

I’m hoping that update brings the removal of the file size restriction. Which has been a real drawback for Atom. I’m also expecting some under the hood improvements. I hope they work the Arabic language problem (it’s shown as scrabble). And maybe the icon. I don’t like it very much :p. Other than that I’m quite happy with the program’s features and performance (on Linux! Of course) Windows boot is almost as long as the Windows boot itself!!

Promised bug fixes 

They have published a list of bug fixes to include in the 1.0 milestone. Some of them as you might have guessed were boot time and file size restriction. The rest can be checked from here.
Let’s see if the Atom team can pull it together. I wasn’t in favor of comparing them to industry titans as I kept saying it’s in Beta. But now the play time is over!

Final words

I really wish them the best. As they put together what could impact the coding world!
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Tasque. The to-do list app you need

2015-05-05 / / 0 Comments
Hey there you guys!
How are you today? I hope you are doing good!

Today we are looking at an awesome task list app. Tasque.
Tasque is a little to-do list that gets the job done. What I like about it is that it’s simple and minimalist. No unneeded features. Just the pure simple core of getting tasks done.

According to Wikipedia the name was partially inspired by the French village by the same spelling. “Tasque” in French is pronounced the same as the word “task” is in English

It’s available from the Ubuntu software center, or via this link as a tar archive. And it can be downloaded for Windows too! Latest stable version is 0.1.12

Reception

It has the rating of 3.5 stars on the Ubuntu software center. True shame. I believe it deserves a 5 star rating. Please up vote it.
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Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet is out

2015-05-03 / / 0 Comments
Hey there you guys. I hope you are having a good day

As this comes nearly a week late. I am sorry. I had been waiting to write about it for months, but when it came I couldn’t get access to publish it (third world problems)

Anyway. Let’s talk about Ubuntu 15.04, shall we?

It’s a standard release. Which means you get 9 months of security and maintenance updates. (For all flavors) And it ships with LibreOffice 4.4 out of the box. It’s called Vivid vervet.

 

I dare you to say it three times without stuttering!! 😉 It’s built on the latest 3.19 Ubuntu core. And features desktop improvements and over all application updates. It also features Ubuntu Make. A development studio for many platforms (15 in total).

Release notes

Checkout the total list of changes from here Download Ubuntu 15.04 from here. I hope you liked it. Please comment below. Have a nice day 🙂

Windows is bloatware

2015-05-02 / / 0 Comments

Hey there you guys!
How are you today? I hope you are doing good!
As I am writing this. You will see a lot of “feel” and “felt” being thrown around. It’s that much devotion I have to my writing. I haven’t really used any tools to benchmark the performance. All I used was my “feeling” and of course. Loading times, shall we?

 

In case you missed it. I like many others, dual-boot. Which means I use two operating systems on my computer. Why I do that you ask? Please refer to my dual-boot path for more.

 

Now I happen to use most of the software I have on both systems. And what I have noticed is: It runs so much better and a lot smoother on Linux than it does on Windows!!

Atom takes 18.7 seconds to load on Windows. Linux, 3 seconds!

Gimp takes 30 seconds to load on Windows, Linux 10 seconds (With many plug-ins and effects!).

LibreOffice crashes on Windows often. Very smooth on Linux!

And as I said in the dual-boot path. Windows loads slower. Takes up a lot more resources. Crashes more often. Filled with problems and prone to viruses!

How is it possible that Windows is the most popular operating system on earth?

Closed source

It’s closed sourced. How do you know what does what exactly? How much of the space is actually used to serve your needs. And what is the rest doing?

Windows is a black box. You buy it as it is. You know what it does but not how it does it. Get this. I don’t think it’s doing it very well.

Windows has matured into a heavy, recourse hungry beast. Whom it’s only purpose is to suck and drain every drop of your pocket. And keep you in need for them.

I don’t feel like the computer is dying just to keep the computer on. Or that powering up is an achievement to be celebrated with several minutes of silence and unresponsiveness. My computer is OK. But Windows expects you to update to a new computer every 10 days or so!

Android is not free

And please don’t say you are an Android person, and since Android is already Linux that means you are all for open source. Android has put more money in Microsoft’s pocket than Windows mobile. Five times that is!

More money than Skype, Windows phone and Xbox combined. And the reason is Samsung -_-

I do feel that Windows is forced and over bloated. Not with features. But with crap!

Linux is “Cancer”

Have you seen the licenses lately? They offer you basic usage rights as professional. And then put an oversized price tag on it! And call it theirs!!

They prefer you use hacked software than you using Linux! They think it’s cancer. I think Windows is the real cancer.

If I need to occupy 20 Gigabytes of my HDD and need to have a Core I3, 4GB Ram just to open my files. Then we have a serious problem here, Microsoft!!

It’s consuming. It’s useless. And it’s ugly (have you used Windows 8 before?)

You might take from this that I hate. Well I don’t. I respect all code. And think that paying for code is a healthy practice.

I’m against monopoly and taking advantage of people. And piracy is never a solution.

To be continued ..!How did you like this post? Did you find it useful? Please comment below and let me hear what you have in mind.

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