WPS Office on Elementary OS: How to fix ugly Open/Save windows

The most popular alternative for Microsoft Office is Libre Office. But there are lot of compatibility issues between MS office and Libre Office. WPS (Kingsoft) office is a free (There is a paid version as well) alternative for MS office users with highest compatibility. You can install the free or paid version of WPS office in Elementary OS. GUI of WS office is much better than Fibre office  and everything works fine.

The only problem I have observed is ugly Open/Save windows. See the screen shot below.

The fix for this is installing following two packages on Elementary OS.

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines:i386

For freya beta

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine:i386

For Luna

sudo apt-get install elementary-desktop

The look after fix is below.

 

Elementary OS - Installing R and R Studio on 14.04

 

R is a popular free package statistical computing and graphics.  Installation of R studio in Elementary OS (freya) is relatively easy.

First add the follwoing line to the /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/

Then run the following command
 
sudo apt-get update

And Then run

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys E084DAB9


 Then install r-base

sudo apt-get install r-base

Installing R studio

• From RStudio website, select and download the right package. Keep in mind to download R studio Free (open source edition).
• Open the file in Ubuntu Software Center
• Click install and you’re done

This is how R studio is running on Elementary OS freya.

Ten reasons to switch from Windows to elementary OS

I have used Windows operating systems for about 20 years and tried to use a Linux-based Operating system as my PC's OS several times. All attempts were failed due to ugly interfaces and lack of alternative softwares for which I have been using. From the Linux distros I have used, elementary OS is the only OS I was sufficiently impressed to give-up Windows and to start using elementary OS as my laptop's operating system. Some reasons to take such a decision are,

1. Elementary OS has fonts which are very to windows. The only other operating system I have seen this feature is Mint Linux.
   
2. Interfaces of e OS are very neat and looks and feel like Mac interfaces. Navigation windows are very similar to windows interfaces.
3.  e OS is very fast compared to Windows 7 or 8. Also faster than very popular Ubuntu. Windows has a native problem of  becoming slow with the time and the only solution to speedup again is formatting and reinstalling. So far I didn’t face that problem with e OS.
4. By default elementary desktop is clean. No icons no files s that you can start your work peacefully. This is a nice opportunity for you to give up the bad habit of saving your files on desktop.
5. e OS is a Ubuntu version with interesting features of OS X. 
6. e OS is user friendly within a few minutes, you can figure out  shortcuts to various programs.
7. Software Updater of e OS is allows users to quickly update the operating system and programs installed.
8. Unlike windows, guest account provide any guest the ability to access the computer but once session is finished, all the work of guest will be deleted.
9. If you are good in shell commands, you can use the power of shell while using the beautiful and simple GUI.
10. Ultimately this is a piece of cake for free of charge. You don't have to spend any money to buy it.