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RE: The Crypto-Lifestyle: Encrypt files with gpg
What an elegant little program. I didn't know about it either. There are so many great terminal programs baked right in!
K Mandla hasn't written in years, but his blog is still up. It's full of reviews of terminal programs which he would run on old hardware. He introduced me to elinks, for example, which is a text-only web browser that runs directly in the terminal!
The K Mandla blog looked great. I also am fine with using "older" hardware, but not quite as old as he wrote about. My favorite is the ThinkPad series with Intel i5 second generation processors. I'm typing this on a ThinkPad X220 and the T420 is another favorite. I upgrade them all with SSDs and run Linux for my own use.
I use some terminal commands on a regular basis, but I have plenty more to learn.
X220 Tablet is my everyday machine! I got a sweet docking station for free at the dump.
X220 is a great laptop. We have quite a bit in common, then. We use essentially the same laptop. Do you use the tablet features very often?
I haven't until the last couple days, when I got the urge to doodle a bit with Krita. I'm not really sure why I went for the tablet model, but I will say the matte screen is a lot crisper and brighter than what I've seen of the regular X220.
Only problem is I haven't figured out how to rotate the stylus input to match the screen orientation with Linux, so I've got to hold the thing upside down when I'm drawing. Doesn't really matter if I hold the thing on my lap.
My daughter has a ThinkPad X201 tablet that wasn't working right with the pen when we installed Solus OS. We may try to install Zorin OS on it to see if the tablet and pen work better with that. If I do, I'll probably write a post about it.
Oh - let me know!
I've found a few tutorials for correcting the orientation that
involve saving scripts to particular directories...you know, the usual Linux stuff! For some reason I just haven't been able to make any of them stick.
I look forward to hearing about your results with the X201!