VIE Full Circle RE W THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #170 - June 2021 L U 4 B .0 UNTU 21 ) m o c . r VIE k E W c R i l F ( k e t i c w r : X o t U 4 o h B .0 P UNTU 21 TTAAMMEE YYOOUURR GGRRUUBB MMEENNUU GIVE YOUR BOOT MENU A MAKE OVER full circle magazine #170 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.15 Linux News p.04 Latex p.18 Command & Conquer p.13 ... p.XX Everyday Ubuntu p.31 Tame Your GRUB Menu p.20 Ubuntu Devices p.XX The Daily Waddle p.43 Micro This Micro That p.33 p.XX My Opinion p.40 Letters p.XX Review p.45 Inkscape p.26 Q&A p.52 Review p.48 Ubuntu Games p.55 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 #170 2 contents ^ EEDDIITTOORRIIAALL This magazine was created using : WELCOME TO THE LATEST ISSUE OF FULL CIRCLE or this issue, we have the usual suspects; Python, Latex, Inkscape, LMMS, MTMT (Micro This F Micro That), and an interesting piece on getting to grips with that pesky GRUB menu. You know, that boring black screen with the white box that lets you pick which OS to boot from. Well, you can make it look all fancy. True story. Even if you only see it for about ten seconds every six months. We continue the reviews of 21.04 this month with Lubuntu and Xubuntu. We have an opinion piece about booting Ubuntu. As in, can the vanilla user understand what's happening when Ubuntu is starting up? I certainly don't! In the real world: I hope you're all keeping safe and well. I hope we're getting to the end of this Find Full Circle on: pandemic nonsense. One expert says we're in a third wave (here in the UK) while another says we're facebook.com/ past the worst of it. By the time you've read this I'll have had both my jags (as we call them here in fullcirclemagazine Scotland) and feel safer. I'm not as young as I used to be! Which is probably a good thing... twitter.com/#!/fullcirclemag Don't forget: if you're looking for some help, advice, or just a chit chat: remember, we have a http://issuu.com/ Telegram group. I mention this as I've been giving out the wrong link in a couple of emails. The link fullcirclemagazine is: https://t.me/joinchat/PujkVH1HopRKvfd3. I hope to see you there. Come and say hello. https://mastodon.social/ @fullcirclemagazine Anyway, stay safe, and all the best for 2021! 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