youtube-dl is no longer the practical starting point for Linux downloads. Install yt-dlp instead: it keeps the familiar command-line workflow, receives current extractor fixes, and works with FFmpeg when a site serves video and audio as separate streams. Install yt-dlp on Debian or Ubuntu For a distro-managed installation, install yt-dlp and FFmpeg from your package […]
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LM Studio gives you a desktop interface for downloading and running language models on your Linux computer, while its separate llmster daemon suits servers and automated workloads. Choose the desktop app or the headless daemon Use the desktop app when you want to discover models, load one into memory, chat, and use the local API
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Install draw.io Desktop when you need to open and edit diagrams without depending on a browser session. On Ubuntu and most Linux desktops, Flatpak is the clearest route because Flathub publishes the current stable application as com.jgraph.drawio.desktop. Choose an installation method draw.io Desktop is the offline desktop editor from diagrams.net. It stores diagrams where you
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GUIscrcpy is a graphical front end for scrcpy, but its upstream repository is archived and its Flathub listing marks the app and its KDE runtime end of life. If you need to mirror and control an Android phone from Linux, use the maintained scrcpy release instead. It gives you the same USB or network connection
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Parabolic gives you a graphical interface for yt-dlp on Linux, so you can choose a video or audio format, subtitles, and a destination without assembling a command. Install Parabolic on Linux with Flatpak Install Flatpak and add the Flathub repository first if your distribution does not already provide it, then install Parabolic with its current
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To change icons in GNOME, install the icon theme where GNOME can find it, then select it in GNOME Tweaks. The useful check is whether the theme folder contains index.theme. If it does not, Tweaks has nothing valid to offer in its Icons menu. Install GNOME Tweaks GNOME Tweaks exposes the icon-theme selector and its
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Orion Torrent Client is listed as com.ktechpit.orion on Flathub and as orion-desktop in the Snap Store, so install it from the catalog your distribution already supports and use it only for files you have permission to share. Choose the install route your Linux system supports Flatpak and Snap distribute the same desktop client through separate
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To install MATLAB on Linux, download the Linux installer from MathWorks, extract it, run the installer from the extracted folder, and sign in with the account that holds your license or trial. The installer is graphical, so the decision that changes the path is where you want MATLAB installed: use a folder you own to
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MPV can open a YouTube URL through its built-in ytdl_hook when it finds yt-dlp on your PATH. Use yt-dlp for the current downloader flow. The refresh environment ran MPV 0.40.0 and yt-dlp 2025.04.30, then resolved a public YouTube URL in simulation mode. Install MPV and yt-dlp Install both packages through your distribution package manager. Debian
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qBittorrent does not need a system-wide dark-mode switch to use a dark interface. You can load a community .qbtheme file through qBittorrent’s custom UI theme setting, then restart the client to apply it. What qBittorrent dark mode means On Linux, qBittorrent’s dark appearance comes from a custom Qt user-interface theme that qBittorrent documents as an
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