This week in KDE: text reflow in Konsole!

• This week in KDE: text reflow in Konsole!

  This week a huge new feature landed in Konsole: it now reflows the text when you resize the window! This feature can be turned off if you don’t like it, but comes on by default. It works really well. Thanks very much to Carlos Alves and Tomaz Canabrava for this work! It will be released in Konsole 21.04.

• KDE Will Reflow Text In Konsole On Window Resizing, Kirigami Icons Now Use Less RAM - Phoronix

  KDE developers have remained very busy in the new year working to improve their open-source desktop stack.  Following last week's near total rewrite of the KWin compositing code there has been an interesting batch of new improvements this week. Some of this week's highlights include:  - KDE's Konsole now re-flows text when resizing the window. The functionality is enabled by default (but there is an option to disable it). 

LibreOffice 7.1 Release Candidate Ready for Testing Ahead of Final Release in Early February

LibreOffice 7.1 is the next major release of the beloved and free office suite used by millions of computer users worldwide, and it’s been in development for more than five months. Now, two months after the beta release, the RC (Release Candidate) milestone is ready for public testing. So if you want to help shape the future of the open source LibreOffice office suite and give The Document Foundation’s QA (Quality Assurance) community a helping hand to make sure LibreOffice 7.1 is a rock-solid release, go ahead and download the Release Candidate (RC1) installers for DEB- or RPM-based distros, as well as the source tarball, from the official website.

Today in Techrights

• InteLeaks – Part XVI: Intel Cannot Do Command Line, Even When It's Vastly Simpler and More Suitable for Development
• IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 15, 2021
• Links 15/1/2021: KaOS 2021.01, Whisker Menu 2.5.2, Istio 1.8.2
• InteLeaks – Part XV: Intel is Blind to Blind and Colour-Blind People
• Links 15/1/2021: GStreamer 1.18.3 and Proton 5.13-5
• IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 14, 2021
• Links 14/1/2021: Wine 6.0, Debian 11 Freeze, and Alpine Linux 3.13

Create Bootable USB Using Etcher in Linux – Download and Usage Guide

Etcher is a utility created by Balena, that makes your life easy with its unique take on creating bootable USB and SD cards with a .iso file. In this guide, I will show you the steps to download and install Etcher. Although it is a bit trivial for some, may be difficult for others. Hence this guide.