gzip replaces each file you hand it with a smaller .gz version using the DEFLATE algorithm. It is the standard compression tool on Linux and has been for decades, so the commands below work on any distribution without installation. I tested every example here on gzip 1.12. How gzip compression works gzip combines LZ77 and
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Installing Minecraft on Linux still means grabbing the official launcher. You can get it as a .deb for Debian-based distros, a .tar.gz for everyone else, or through a community snap installer if you prefer that route. Install Minecraft on Ubuntu and its derivatives Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions get a direct .deb package from Minecraft. This
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When you need to pull a file from a URL on the command line, curl can do it over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and SFTP without a browser. The catch is that a bare curl command prints the file to stdout, not to disk. Add one flag and the download lands in your current directory. Save
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The AppImage bundles Neovim with its dependencies into a single executable file, so it runs on any Linux distribution without installation. Download the latest AppImage from the Neovim releases page, or run these commands: To make the AppImage available globally, move it to a directory on your PATH and add the export line to your
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A Pentium 4 laptop with 1 GB of RAM can run a full desktop Linux from a USB stick in under a minute. Puppy Linux loads the entire operating system into RAM, so the original drive never needs to spin up and the machine feels faster than it did when it shipped. What Makes Puppy
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A typo during Ubuntu’s install leaves you with a username you did not choose. Changing the name is not a single rename: the home directory, group, and hard-coded paths each need their own move. Creating a Temporary Username You cannot rename the account you are logged into. Create a temporary admin user, log into that,
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After Chrome and Firefox, Brave ranks among the top browsers on Linux. It is open source, built from Chromium, and ships with a built-in ad blocker that also stops cross-site trackers and cookies. Brave’s privacy features cut off the ad revenue funding content creators. You can fix that by whitelisting specific websites and YouTube channels,
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date prints the clock, and the argument after the plus sign decides which shape that clock comes out in. I ran date +%F on a UTC machine and got 2026-09-16, where the bare command printed Wed Sep 16 17:43:13 UTC 2026. That switch also produces the epoch number a script compares against and the ISO
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CPU temperature on Linux has two correct answers and each one fails on the wrong machine. Install lm-sensors and run sensors, or read a file under /sys/class/thermal. A temperature appears only after a kernel driver recognises a sensor chip and publishes its registers as files. The first command is therefore a detection command, and the
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useradd prints nothing and exits 0. That silence is not success, because the account it leaves behind has no home directory, a /bin/sh login shell, and a password field locked in /etc/shadow. I ran each flag on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 account and read the state back after every one. The flags that carry the
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