Sure, it may be hard, but it is possible to give up graphical interfacesentirely—even in 2019.About three years back, I attempted to live entirely on the command line for 30days—no graphical interface, no X Server, just a big-old terminal and me,for a month.I lasted all of ten days.

My first MacBook was the first computer I really loved, but I wasn't happyabout the idea of buying a new one.I decided it's important to live your values and tosupport groups that value the things you do.

A snapshot of the current state of Desktop Linux at the start of2019—with comparison charts and a roundtable Q&A with the leaders of three topLinux distributions.

Qubes OS is a security-focused operating system that, as tech editor Kyle Rankin puts it, "is fundamentally different from any other Linux desktop I've used". Join us this weekend in reading Kyle's multi-part series on all things Qubes.Secure Desktops with Qubes: Introduction

It was white, not much bigger than my hands held side by side, weighedabout as much as a bottle of wine, and it came in a shiny, faux-leather case. Itwas the $199 Asus Eee 901, and I couldn't believe that a computer could bethat powerful, that light and that much fun.

Early in 2017—nearly two years ago—System76 invited me, and a handful of others, out to its Denver headquarters for a sneak peek at something new they'd been working on.We were ushered into a windowless, underground meeting room. Our phones and cameras confiscated. Seriously. Every word of that is true. We were sworn to total and complete secrecy. Assumedly under penalty of extreme death...though that part was, technically, never stated.Once the head honcho of System76, Carl Richell, was satisfied that the room was secure and free from bugs, the presentation began.

Nitrux is a Linux distribution with a focus on portable, application formatslike AppImages. Nitrux uses KDE Plasma 5 and KDE Applications, and it also usesour in-house software suite Nomad Desktop.What Can You Use Nitrux For?Well, just about anything! You can surf the internet, word-process, sendemail, create spreadsheets,listen to music, watch movies, chat, play games, code, do photo editing,create content—whatever you want!

Forget all of those magical command-line PDF incantations and edityour PDFs easily with Xournal.Somehow, despite all the issues with proprietary clients and the history ofsecurity issues with Acrobat, PDFs have become the de facto standard for youraverage print-ready document shared around the office. Sure, people might usesome kind of open document format or a cloud editor if they intend to edit adocument, but if the goal is to print the document or lock itscontents in place, most people these days will export it to a PDF.

The "Year of the Desktop" has been a perennial call to arms that's sunken into ajoke that's way past its expiration date. We frequently talk aboutthe "Year of the Desktop", but we don't really talk about how we wouldachieve that goal. What does the "Year of the Desktop" even look like?What it comes down to is applications—rather, a market for applications.There is no market for applications because of a number of culturalartifacts that began when the Free Software was just getting up on wobbly legs.

AI: open source's next big win.

ONLYOFFICE is a free and open-source office suite that provides analternative for three major MS Office apps—Word, Excel andPowerPoint—working online.ONLYOFFICE's main features include:

Are you bored with the look of your desktop? Arethe wallpapers that come with your distro enough for you?WallpaperDownloaderis a graphical application that will help you customize your desktopand find wallpapers automatically.

Harness the power of bash and learn how to scrape websites for excitingnew images every morning.

Ravada is an open-source project that allows users to connect to avirtual desktop.Currently, it supports KVM, but its back end has been designed andimplemented in order to allow future hypervisors to be added to theframework. The client's only requirements are a web-browser and a remoteviewer supporting the spice protocol.Ravada's main features include:

Considering making the move to Qubes 4? This article describes a few ofthe big changes.In my recent article "The RefactorFactor", I talked about the new incarnation of LinuxJournal in the context of a big software project doing a refactor:

Learn a few tips for getting the most out of your Qubes desktop.

Promising the world's best office experience for the Linux community, WPSSoftware presents WPS Office 2016 for Linux: a high-performing yet considerablymore affordable alternative to Microsoft Office that is fully compatible with andcomparable to the constituent PowerPoint, Excel and Word applications.

Ubuntu Kylin is an open-source Linux distribution based on Ubuntu since 2013,mainly developed by a Chinese team alongside dozens of Linux developers allover the world. It contains the basic features you would expect from Ubuntu, plusfeatures a desktop environment and applications.

"A new era in visual collaboration" is the promise of MTCanvus-Connect, MultiTaction's new real-time collaboration software thatenables visual touchscreen collaboration across remote locations in realtime.

IntroductionInternet service providers in the United States have just been given thegreen light to sell usage history of their subscribers by SJ Res 34,