Don Watkins (He/Him/His)

16903 points

Franklinville, New York

Educator, entrepreneur, open source advocate, life long learner, Python teacher. M.A. in Educational Psychology, M.S. Ed. in Educational Leadership, Linux system administrator.

Open Source Star Best Interview Award 2016 Best Interview Award 2017 Moderator's Choice Award 2018 Moderator's Choice Award 2019 People's Choice Award Social Sharer Award 2014 Conversation Starter Award 2015 Author Comment Gardener Open education 100+ Contributions Club Contributor Club

Authored Content

Choosing a printer for Linux

Linux offers widespread support for printers. Learn how to take advantage of it.

What is your favorite Linux screen capture tool?

With many options to choose from, you've got plenty of choices when it comes to capturing what's on your screen.

How to do open research: 5 basic principles

How to use Kolibri to access educational material offline

Kolibri makes digital educational materials available to students without internet access.

Tips for listing files with ls at the Linux command line

Learn some of the Linux 'ls' command's most useful variations.

LibreOffice: A history of document freedom

The Document Foundation estimates 1,000 contributors are active on a weekly basis.

hot keys for shortcuts or features on computer keyboard

Create and publish video with open source Kaltura editor

Learn more about Kaltura for your video editing needs.

Authored Comments

Don Watkins

23 Sep 2021

5 reasons to switch to Firefox right now

I use FireFox some of the time and I like the reason you cite for supporting it more fully. There was a time ten years ago when it was my 'go to' browser.

Don Watkins

20 Sep 2021

Use this Linux command-line tool to learn more about your NVMe drives

Glad you found it useful. I"ve got two Linux computers with NVMe drives. My laptop from System76 has a Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB the other computer is an Intel NUC which has a Crucial 1 TB NVMe drive. I've learned a bit about the nuances of each drive with the 'nvme-cli' utility.