Variety and Spectacle Utilities in Linux
In my investigation of Linux utilities, I accidentally, found two very interesting utilities.
Number one is Variety, it gives one a soothing desktop animation and effects with lot of very simple customization.
What I really like is the large Time, Day and Month display on the desktop.
It can be connected to the Internet for variety of images.
The second item is Spectacle that one can take a screen-shot with or without animations.
Apart from them I downloaded
1. Stacer
2. Ranger
3. Notepadqq
4. Sweeper
5. Gnome-pie
6. Gnome teaks
The heavy weights are
7. Scribus
8. Blender
9. Inkscape
10. Kdenlive
11. Transmission
12. Deluge
13. Box
14. VLC
15. Audacity
16. Clapper
17. AbiWord
18. Xournal ++
19. Rednotebook
20. Evolution
21. Bluefish
22. Synaptic Package Manager, my favorite
23. SNAP software which I rarely use.
24. LibreOffice
25. Lot of file managers and 4Pane is excellent.
26. Lot of simple games both Gnome and KDE.
All these has taken little over 11GB and I have 12GB left in my home folder without Iso images.
27. All the Iso images are in NTFS partition and it has only one ARCH Linux derivative.
ARCH Linux and its derivatives cannot be tested live on Gnome BOX Utility. So I do not bother with ARCH.
28. I have enough data for my book on "Linux Essentials".
By the way, this site is not a gossip column.
With elections all over, including Ceylon, I have no interest in politics at all.
Guys who are in politics are mostly impotent scoundrels and when see Nancy Pelocy, Joe Biden and Democratic Party, it looks like USA Hegemony is in a Cliff Edge.
Good on America!.
