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Applications: FIGlet, Calibre, Bottles, and Weather
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Neowin ☛ Try out these fun FIGlet commands and customize your GNU/Linux terminal
This guide will get you started with the FIGlet command line program, but you can customize the example in this guide to build your own creations too.
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DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Lazy Reading for 2026/08/09
“Interesting personal tech feats” is the mini-theme. How you wind up with switches above your office’s false ceiling. Every office job I ever had, now that I think about it. How I self-host my ebooks and audiobooks. Calibre is an astonishingly useful program. Entering accented characters in Linux.
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Make Use Of ☛ This free tool runs Windows apps on the Linux I already have — and it's not Wine
Running Windows applications on Linux can often turn out to be a challenge. For every game that works flawlessly under Wine or Valve’s Proton translation layer, there is always another app that remains entirely unsupported, or might not even be a game in the first place.
This is where Bottles comes into play. Bottles is a Wine prefix manager that uses a graphical user interface to configure things, not unlike Lutris. However, it’s way more specialized for productivity software (such as Office suites) and offers a sandboxed environment using Flatpak. I’ve been using it for a while now, and it’s managed to replace Lutris and vanilla Wine entirely for my usual day-to-day use.
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Windows 11’s Weather app uses ~1GB RAM, GNU/Linux apps a fraction
I was flummoxed to read a report on how much memory Microsoft’s Weather app uses on backdoored Windows 11 – more than 1GB just to render what is, ostensibly, a fancy table of stats. Less surprising is that the GNOME Weather app does the same job for under a fifth of the reported backdoored Windows figure, while Mousam, my go-to weather app, uses around a third of Microsoft’s effort (and with a nicer design, too). Not everyone on backdoored Windows 11 is seeing memory usage as high as the 1.1GB figure given in backdoored Windows Latest viral post.