Under my bed is a giant box of CDs that I’ve been meaning to rip for years. Some aren’t on Spotify, some are, but not the right version and one is by an artist I’m half convinced is a folk memory or the Mandela effect. Laser is a new GTK4/libadwatia CD ripping application for Linux that’s coaxed me into getting on with the job. CD sales in the UK are booming as younger buyers put off by the gentrified price of vinyl turn to cheaper physical formats. Perhaps that’s why, a decade after optical drives disappeared from laptops, Linux suddenly […]