Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #166 - February 2021 UUBBUUNNTTUU WWEEBB 2200..0044..11 A REPLACEMENT FOR CHROME OS? full circle magazine #166 contents ^ Full Circle Magazine is neither affiliated with,1 nor endorsed by, Canonical Ltd. HowTo Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY Python p.25 Linux News p.04 Podcast Production p.29 Command & Conquer p.23 Linux Loopback p.XX Everyday Ubuntu p.41 Make a Budget p.32 Ubuntu Devices p.XX The Daily Waddle p.39 My Opinion p.48 p.XX My Story p.XX Letters p.51 Review p.51 Inkscape p.35 Q&A p.58 Review p.55 Ubuntu Games p.61 Graphics The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 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Full Circle magazine is entirely independent of Canonical, the sponsor of the Ubuntu projects, and the views and opinions in the magazine should in no way be assumed to have Canonical endorsement. full circle magazine #166 2 contents ^ EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL This magazine was created using : WELCOME TO THE LATEST ISSUE OF FULL CIRCLE ithin this new issue we have yet more Python, the final part of the Podcast production series, W more Inkscape, and an article on making a simple budgeting spreadsheet. Elsewhere, Richard is going back to some retro gaming with Everyday Ubuntu. What's your opinion on light and dark themes? We have an opinion piece on that. And a review of Ubuntu Web. Ubuntu who? Yes, there's a web based Ubuntu that's trying to move into the turf belonging to ChromeOS. And if you need to put said distro onto a USB stick, then we have an article about using Unetbootin. Which I can heartily recommend as I've used it many a time in the past to make a bootable USB stick. 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