When you’re reading a book outside, a shady spot can offer respite from the sun’s bright rays on your book’s pages. Wouldn’t it be nice to bring the effects of a shady environment to your computer screen, saving your eyes from the harshness of black-on-white backlit text? Solarized can make that wish a reality. Solarized, … Read more
Systemd has become a primary feature of many Linux distributions, including Arch Linux. It completes the boot process, starts and stops services, and even works closely alongside the netctl utility for connecting to the Internet. Arch Linux developers created Netctl, as its man page states, to “control the state of the Systemd services for the … Read more
Dual-booting macOS and Ubuntu requires a little adventurousness, but it’s not too difficult. There can be some problems with the bootloader, though, so we’ll need to deal with that. It’s not too hard to install (and dual-boot) Ubuntu on a Mac. As a warning, it’s way more efficient to run Ubuntu on a virtual machine … Read more
There are actually a couple of ways to get Skype installed and running on your Ubuntu system. Both are fairly easy. It’s probably more convenient to use a Snap package, but you can also download and install Skype directly from Microsoft’s site. With a Snap Snaps are a relatively new universal packaging format for Linux. … Read more
Tiling window managers have several advantages over their more popular cousins such as Gnome, KDE, XFCE, or Fluxbox. The feature of this post, dwm, takes these advantages to their most extreme. While most tiling managers strive to be lightweight, dwm keeps itself on a starvation diet of 2000 lines of code or fewer. All its … Read more
One of the most important skills you can learn as a Linux user is how to use a manual page, or “man page.” This article will introduce you to those simple documents. You’ll learn how to open man pages and identify the contents inside, which will include special markings such as bold and underlined text … Read more
Regardless of the operating system you are using sometimes it will become bloated with plenty of useless files lying around. To make it worse, you have barely enough storage space left in your hard disk, even though you just upgraded it not long ago. Therefore, it is necessary to do some maintenance on your PC … Read more
Through the past decade, inventive games such as Portal and The Room have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible for puzzles in PC, console, and mobile. Even with those and other excellent developments, however, a glaring chasm has remained: There were no n-curses-based Rubik’s Cube for the Unix console. Github developer calebabutler has filled that … Read more
Linux offers a number of tools for examining your running processes. With the applications shown below, you can find out which applications are eating all your memory and which files are attached to those rogue programs. Or you can just get a global view of how your system is performing. Regardless of your specific level … Read more
Arch Linux has become a popular Linux distribution because of its split between usability and control. It offers all the tools a power user needs to maintain complete control over his system, yet it also provides newbies with the helpful instruction guides on how to complete nearly any task. One thing newbies often forget, though, … Read more