My Linux Experience 2026

  Week 8    In this week's episode of "My Linux Experience 2026", I will go through, as the series name suggests, my journey with the Linux operating system this week. I will cover the apps and programs that I used, as well as an honest personal opinion about them. Let's dive right in.   Python  I have always liked the concept of creating your own app or program, as well as the code that goes behind it. This is why I learnt some Python to make basic input and output responses with the user, HTML to make my very own website, and obviously some Scratch. After I installed Linux, I always embraced the idea of an open source software, where anyone can propose edits or branch off into a customised version of the program. That is what gave me the inspiration to create something for the Linux community. After some research, I installed the " thonny " Python editor. I found out that it didn't work exactly like an app like the ones we know so well. To launch it, I...

   Week 7  While daily driving Linux on my PC at home, I have noted several quality of life features that the operating system, or at least KDE CachyOS Wayland, offers the user. In this post I will sum up and list the features in a ranked order, from last (but certainly not least) to the best. Obviously there might not be an equal gap throughout the items of the list; the "best" one might only be slightly stronger than the second and third quality of life features. But without any ado, let's dive right in. 4.   Btop - computer performance monitor   "Btop " is an excellent performance monitor which is directly accessible right on the go. it features clean bars showing the usage of your computer components like your CPU and your memory (RAM). The usage percentages and the temperatures of all CPU threads are also shown (in my case there are 16 threads). Graphs showing the download and uploads of memory and storage are also present with a great deal of metrics...

  Week 6    If you have seen benchmark videos showcasing the performance of a certain CPU and GPU combination in a list of famous and demanding titles, you will remember that they always have this cool, live-updated, performance monitors that display the usage in percentage of the components as well as their temperatures, the memory (RAM and VRAM) being used, and obviously the frame rate (FPS) with the 1% lows. But unfortunately, the software that the video creators use aren't often native on Linux.   The app that I use on my CachyOS Linux desktop is  MangoHUD . It features a performance monitor which can be customised using the straight forward  GOverlay.  The GOverlay interface even includes a spinning cube simulation that can be used to test the performance monitor before applying it to a game.  The  GOverlay  interaface with the  vkcube  simulation - the "Basic" view is selected   As shown in the image above, the perfo...

  Week 5   As known to many people, the famous Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software is unfortunately unavailable on Linux, being reserved for Windows and MacOS users. But what if there was actually an option for the Linux users, which is actually on par with Adobe's feature rich, top tier editing software?  The  Kdenlive  project was started way back in 2003, eventually becoming part of the KDE open-source product suite. KDE is a non-profit international community of software developers that develops free and open-source software that powers schools, governments, cars, and even NASA as well as the CERN particle accelerator, according to their website. Kdenlive is run by a small team of developers, supported by donations from their fellow users.  Adobe Premiere was first released in 1991, developed by Adobe Inc., was one of the first computer-based non-linear video editing software of its time. Currently it hosts an estimated 30 million users on Windows...