The WebP format, which is developed by Google is becoming ever more popular on the net these days. With many popular websites and web browsers adopting it. WebP offers a modern image format that “provides superior and lossy compression for images on the web”. Having played with the file format myself, I can confirm …

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Below is a list of my favourite Linux and technology related YouTube channels. This isn't an exhaustive list of all the content I watch, but rather a list of the ones I frequent on a regular basis. Hopefully this will be a good introduction for those curious about the Linux community. If you have any favourites of your …

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New users to Linux may find it a bit “fiddly” getting Second Life up and running. So, in this guide I'll quickly show you how to install the Firestorm client to access Second Life. The Linux distribution I use is Manjaro Xfce 20.0.3, which is an Arch based. However, the steps below should work on other Linux distros …

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Windows gamers will be familiar with "NVIDIA GeForce Experience”, and its ability to allow you to record the last 30 seconds of gameplay as a video file to the hard drive. Annoyingly however, for us Linux gamers, even though NVIDIA supports Linux with its proprietary binary graphics drivers - they haven't made a Linux …

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I moved from “UBUNTU MATE 18.04 LTS” to “MX Linux 18.3 Continuum” about two weeks ago, and I have to say I love it. Although there were little niggles I had to sort out for gaming on this distro. ⚠ These problems may have been fixed after this page was written, so be sure to test things fully before you apply these …

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For those using the "Thunar" file manager in Linux — I've written a small script which adds a custom action to Thunar. It uses ffmpeg to convert large screen grab images to the size required for Lutris game banners images. For games that don't have a banner, you can screenshot your own to your Pictures/ folder when the …

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