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Review of the ASUS VivoBook X402NA-FA112T

Review of the ASUS VivoBook X402NA-FA112T

I have recently bought a new 14″ laptop, the ASUS VivoBook X402NA-FA112T as it is called in the Netherlands. On the ASUS.com website, this model is known as the ASUS VivoBook E402NA. Although this is a budget laptop, its a big improvement over my previous laptop (the Acer Aspire One 725). Both machines happily run openSUSE Leap 15. This review provides an overview of the new hardware and how it performs when running openSUSE Leap 15. Design and hardware The ASUS…

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Installing Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.9 on openSUSE Leap 15

Installing Rapid Photo Downloader 0.9.9 on openSUSE Leap 15

Have you noticed? After installing Rapid Photo Downloader from the openSUSE repositories, it doesn’t launch. As indicated in an earlier blog post, this program is really great to download your photo’s into the right folders in one go. Version 0.9.9 is a big overhaul for this application. If you want to use it right now, you need to install it using these instructions. Installation The first thing to do is to install, then remove Rapid Photo Downloader using YaST. Why…

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Control your browser like a pro! Plasma browser integration

Control your browser like a pro! Plasma browser integration

The KDE Plasma team knows that you want to take control over your computing experience. Many things work out of the box. Like using the multimedia keys on your keyboard to play and pause your music in Amarok. Or controlling the audio of individual applications in the audio volume plasmoid. The only problem: the browser didn’t play nice with the rest of the applications. This is now changing and you can try it already in openSUSE Leap 15. Installation The…

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Checking out the notebookbar and other improvements in LibreOffice 6.0

Checking out the notebookbar and other improvements in LibreOffice 6.0

With any new openSUSE release, I am interested in the improvements that the big applications have made. One of these big applications is LibreOffice. Ever since LibreOffice has forked from OpenOffice.org, there has been a constant delivery of new features and new fixes every 6 months. openSUSE Leap 15 brought us the upgrade from LibreOffice 5.3.3 to LibreOffice 6.0.4. In this post, I will highlight the improvements that I found most newsworthy. Notebookbar One of the experimental features of LibreOffice…

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Testing KDE Plasma Vault on openSUSE Leap 15

Testing KDE Plasma Vault on openSUSE Leap 15

I never considered using encrypted folders. But when the KDE project announced it with the release of the Plasma 5.11 desktop environment, it made total sense. Just like KDE Connect, this is one of these killer features that can convince people to give Linux a try. With the release of openSUSE Leap 15, it was the perfect time to test this application. Installing Plasma Vault The easiest way to install Plasma Vault, is to search in YaST Software Manager for…

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