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Microsoft has been alienating its users by making pointless user interface changes, dropping support for its instant messenger app and not providing software that will play a DVD. We can either: a) Point and laugh like Nelson the bully from The Simpsons; or b) show the poor, huddled masses of Windows users that there is a better way. Or, if you don't use Windows and don't know anybody who does, you can simply marvel at how much better off you are because you use Linux, and congratulate yourself on your sound judgement. Also in the magazine! There's coding a-plenty, with an introduction to Ruby, a beginner's tutorial on Scratch and the latest installment of our Django series. You can assuage your fears over UEFI, wrange KDE 4 to your personal preference with our missing manual, write your own command-line tool, discover the best photo editor for Linux and find out why free software developers should learn from the Bible. All this and more, in Linux Format 168 – the super-middleweight issue!
Features
Linux vs Windows8
We take a look at Microsoft's latest offering, and see how it compares to our beloved Linux. (Mayank Sharma) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Love it or hate it, UEFI is here and it's unlikely to go anywhere. We take a look at what this means for Linux (John Lane) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Fraqtive, Tiny BASIC, DeadBeef, Smem, Mundus, Glogg, Grafx2, Pioneer, FBZX, PyCalendarGen, libexplain (Mike Saunders) Available as a PDF to subscribers.
Tutorials
Virtualise your computer
let your old hardware live on by keeping an image of it running on your new computer. (David Hayward) Available as a PDF to subscribers.