Krita seems like a good replacement for Microsoft Paint. It is sufficiently intuitive to use, even without any exposure to it before. I use such programs primarily to crop and add frames to screenshots. Even for that relatively simple task, …
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Although it is often somewhat hidden, most text editors, except for the most basic ones, have a column mode (also known as block mode or visual mode) – to work on rectangular selections of text (including a width of zero). …
Using the package manager in Ubuntu to install Emacs will result in some older version (version 26.3 on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 (Focal Fossa)). One way to get the latest version, currently 27.2 for the stable version, is to compile from …
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The short version is: Download the tar ball from arm.com, extract, add the /bin folder in the extracted to the path, and make GDB work by adding symbolic links in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu for the expected version 5 of the libraries “libncurses” …