The GNU/Linux Diary

An excerpt from my my diary, from the 20th of February, 2024.

Hey, did you know this environment has a recent files folder, and that it’s cross compatible with literally all apps on the system? Super cool, except I guess anything amorous will also appear there too. Whatever, this is free software after all. I’m not exactly beaming this info to John Microsoft anymore. I suppose I don’t mind catching a glimpse of a picture or two while opening a file, if I choose to go to the recent tab; it’s my machine, and only I use it. Speaking of using my machine, I haven’t exactly been using LibreOffice like I had intended to. Let’s get caught up with my mood calendar in Calc, and then maybe start a new project in Writer. I figure it’s been about a week now, so let’s start writing down some of the stuff I’ve been doing in my new GNU/Linux system, with all the ups and downs of my adventure.

I imagine that will be fun, and also give me some added reason to be active in using the system, as opposed to purely watching videos and visiting other websites. I have to say, LibreOffice is a little off within Windows, not in the sense that it’s unusable, but just that some GUI elements don’t work as you’d expect, or don’t look quite right. No problem if you leave it on light mode and don’t try to scroll the default text format, but...yeah. On GNU/Linux—presumably its real home—it’s more responsive, everything works exactly as expected, and dark mode looks lovely! This is an excellent collection of tools which I’ve been, and will continue to use frequently for all of my needs. I wrote my first entry today, but it is likely going to be the biggest one, so I’d consider that a good success!

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