David Both is an Open Source Software and GNU/Linux advocate, trainer, writer, and speaker. He has been working with Linux and Open Source Software since 1996 and with computers since 1969. He is a strong proponent of and evangelist for the "Linux Philosophy for System Administrators."
He has written articles for magazines including, Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, and OS/2 Magazine back when there was such a thing. He currently writes prolifically for OpenSource.com. He particularly enjoys learning new things while researching his books and articles, building his own computers, and helping his grandchildren build their computers. He has found some interesting
and unusual ways of problem solving, including sitting on one computer on which he was working.
David has published five books with Apress. Four solo works, “The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins,” August 2018, and a three volume self-study training course, “Using and Administering Linux — From Zero to SysAdmin,” released in December, 2019. He has also written one book with co-author Cyndi Bulka, "Linux for Small Business Owners" that was released in 2022.
David currently lives in Raleigh, NC, with his amazing and supportive wife, Alice.
He can be reached via email at LinuxGeek46@both.org or on Mastodon at @LinuxGeek46@linuxrocks.online.
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Jim, I have not reviewed the Xtra Fine Computing Environment (XFCE), but I have used it on occasion. I think it works well and is especially suited for computers with very small resources. I have a very old laptop that I have been thinking about installing it on.
But the article about KDE is not a review. Rather it is just a fun article that is intended to also convey the vast amount of flexibility available to users of KDE. It would actually take an entire book to do that in any depth.
Thanks!
For those of you who mentioned file managers like Konqueror or Dolphin, I have an article that should be published here next week comparing a few of them. And I will be submitting articles on two or three of my favorite file managers that will go into far more detail than an article that compares several in only a couple thousand words.