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Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review

they said taking your puppy to work is good for your well-being

I very much expected something janky —the main website is hosted on GitHub, there are multiple places to find the ISOs, the wiki is a mess, the lexicon seems silly (pups, puplets, kennels, etc. There are loads of things to find when you start exploring: LXTerminal and lxrandr from the venerable LXDE project, ROX-Filer, JWM, qpdfview, DeaDBeef, EasyTAG, Leafpad, Viewnoir, mpv, CUPS for printing, a firewall and advert blocker, AbiWord, Gnumeric, gFTP, heck, it even comes with jq. Even so, the modern conveniences are there—keyboard shortcuts for moving windows around, virtual desktops, tonnes of helper apps to make it look the way you want—and, most importantly, it isn’t massive or use loads of memory.

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