Microsoft Office Alternatives

It’s my opinion that there are only a hand full of users that should purchase Office 365 despite all the pressure to do just that. These days there are so many alternatives to MS Office many of them free. These alternatives are sometimes free and opensource programs, but many come straight from Microsoft. LibreOffice LibreOffice…

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My New Favorite Operating System

I’ve been using the Pro version of Windows 11 a lot, and I think maybe I have been wrong all along. There’s maybe some very good reasons to purchase Win Pro: Of course if your working in an enterprise environment and your administering many PCs using Policy Editor or Active Directory you have to be using…

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What Is Copilot?

Copilot is a new feature from Microsoft that leverages the power of AI to help you with various tasks and questions. It is an everyday AI companion that can boost your productivity, unlock your creativity, and help you understand information better with a simple chat experience. You can use Copilot to: Copilot is currently available…

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Install Windows Software Easily

Winget is great you go to one of to webgsite that gives you scrip to download the software so you can run it in your commad prompt or Powershell. There are also links to download the software from within your web-browser.Now there is a GUI application the does all of the automatically. WingetUI is a…

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What is Winget?

The Windows Package Manager is a free and open-source package manager designed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It consists of a command-line utility and a set of services for installing applications. Independent software vendors can use it as a distribution channel for their software packages. If you’ve ever used Linux, it is king…

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Quickemu, Easy Virtual Machines

Quickemu is a frontend for QEMU (a very fast hypervisor) Quickemu quickly creates and runs highly optimized desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you.  Quickemu I think is…

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What is Linux?

Basically Linux is an open source Unix like operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 at the Univocity of Helsinki in 1991 when he was a 21-year-old computer science student, working towards his PHD. Torvalds wanted to build an operating system that would mimic the proprietary Unix operating system. He open-sourced the code…

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What is Virtualbox?

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a type-2 hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation. VirtualBox was originally created by InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, which was in turn acquired by Oracle in 2010. VirtualBox may be installed on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Solaris and OpenSolaris. There are also ports…

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