Struggling to keep your file downloads organized, or have you suddenly lost connection on a download at 99%? If you don’t already have a download manager installed on your Linux machine, it’s time to get one. Thankfully, there are several good download managers for Linux users to try. Here are four of the best. While … Read more
One of the biggest draws of Linux as a powerful OS ecosystem is its speed out of the box, but it’s always beneficial to further speed up your Linux PC. Below are multiple elements that factor into your system’s speed capabilities and some great ways to speed things up. Thread Scheduling Initially, Linux used a … Read more
If you’ve got a laptop, you’ll no doubt notice your touchpad. Most people don’t mind it, but some people really don’t like the thing. As cool as it is to be able to temporarily disable the touchpad, wouldn’t you rather have the ability to fully shut it off at startup? It’s possible. I should know … Read more
If you have just inherited a computer that is running Linux, you will want to know which Linux distribution and version is running on it. The previous owner might have customized it heavily, like coating it with a macOS theme. That makes it not easy to find out the distribution’s name and version from the … Read more
The Raspberry Pi 4B first launched late in June 2019, and with it came a new version of Raspbian, the Raspberry Pi’s official operating system. Not long after, Debian, the operating system Raspbian is based on, also released its latest version, Debian 10 Buster. Thanks to the framework already in place from Debian, upgrading the … Read more
KDE’s desktop effects are fantastic, except when taking screenshots for use on your site or blog. Great-looking shadows around every desktop element are captured as well and can end up conflicting with your site or blog’s theme. Most screenshot tools insist on capturing them, and the option they offer to disable decorations can also change … Read more
There are no shortage of media players for Linux. The majority of Linux distributions come with at least one player pre-installed and offer a few more in the repositories. One of the most popular open source media players is Mplayer, a command-line application with several graphical front-ends (SMPlayer is one of them). It’s a powerful … Read more
Image viewers are useful when you just want to check out a few photos or quickly organize a folder without using some elaborate image management software. Major Linux distributions offer at least one image viewer by default, and if you’re looking for new ones, here are six great suggestions. Not all apps on this list … Read more
In technical terms, “/dev/null” is a virtual device file. As far as programs are concerned, these are treated just like real files. Utilities can request data from this kind of source, and the operating system feeds them data. But, instead of reading from disk, the operating system generates this data dynamically. An example of such … Read more
Upgrading Linux has gotten much easier than it used to be. In the old days, you might upgrade certain pieces of software, but mostly you would wait until you bought the next version of your distro of choice. Then you’d install it and marvel at the upgraded software. Package management systems have made this easy, … Read more