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I’m often asked to recommend a good PDF editor that runs on Linux PCs, and as luck would have it, there are several excellent ones to choose from.
If you’re looking for a good PDF editor for your own Linux machine, here’s a little secret that you might not know… [Read more…]
Question from Larry: Hi, Rick. I love your blog and subscribe to your newsletter. I respect your opinions very much.
I’d like to ask a question if you don’t mind.
I’ve been buying yard sale items in bulk locally and selling them on Ebay for a couple of years now, and I’m looking to branch out.
I’ve been thinking lately about creating Linux installation media (DVDs and USB flash drives) on my home computer and selling them on EBay.
My question is can I legally do that without getting into any kind of legal trouble? [Read more…]
Question from Louis: I’d been having trouble with Windows 7 on my Acer computer so I went online looking for a solution.
I wasn’t having much luck with my search but then I happened to stumble across your post about replacing Windows with Linux.
Well, it intrigued me, and after thinking about it for a while I held my breath and installed Linux Mint. I chose Mint over the others because you said it works a lot like Windows. [Read more…]
Question from Emmett: I have a question about Zoom and I’m hoping you can answer it for me.
My laptop has been giving me problems and I’m thinking of replacing Windows with Linux Mint like you mentioned in this blog post.
The only thing holding me back is I’ve heard that Zoom won’t work on a Linux computer, and I really need to use Zoom. If it won’t work with Linux that’ll be a deal-breaker for me.
My question is will Zoom work with Linux or not? [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post explaining how to give an old PC new life by replacing Windows with Linux as a means of extending the useful life of older PCs.
After that post was published I received a number of emails asking for a list of Linux programs that can replace the Windows programs they’d leaving behind if they made the switch.
I decided that it might be a good idea to publish that list in its own blog post, and here it is: [Read more…]