Cinnamon Desktop Environment is one of the many lightweight DEs available for older hardware. It merely uses 650MB on a fresh boot, and the interface is easy to use for people migrating from macOS as well as Windows. It was derived from the GNOME 3 project because the developers didn’t like the changes in the […]
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MATE is a lightweight and simple Desktop Environment which is a fork of the GNOME 2 project. It is under active development while preserving the traditional ‘GNOME 2’ look and feel. It ships by default in many Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu Mate and Linux Mint. Although developed by the Ubuntu Mate team, this DE
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TeamViewer and AnyDesk are some of the most popular applications to access any desktop remotely, whether for troubleshooting or otherwise. However, you can also use the RustDesk application, which is the best alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk and an open source available on all platforms, including Windows, macOS, Android, and all Linux distributions. It also allows you to
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yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dlc with additional features and fixes of the now-inactive YouTube-dl tool, which was an open source command-line program to download videos and playlists from various websites, including YouTube. It is a really useful tool which allows you to download videos, audio and subtitle as well, at a specific resolution. You
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There are numerous ways through which you can install any application on Linux. Package managers, Flatpaks and snaps are the most used package managers on distributions, but there is another way – AppImages. AppImages are standalone applications which do not need to be installed on your distribution and can run directly using a launcher. Although,
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I recently switched to the Cinnamon Desktop Environment from GNOME 42 because of excessive RAM usage. Now, I used the bulk rename feature of the Nautilus file manager very regularly to rename files via the GUI, but this feature was not available in the Nemo file manager which is the default in the Cinnamon Desktop
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DuckDuckGo is one of the most private search engines available to use on any web browser. It does not track you in any manner (unless you use the DuckDuckGo browser) and gives you just the result of your query (unlike Google, which gives you a search result based on your history). You still have to
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Harmonoid Player is an excellent-looking, free and open-source music player available on Linux, Windows and Android. It has excellent metadata support and can index all your music files very efficiently. It also supports playing music directly from YouTube as well as from your local library. In this article, we will take a look at the
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Arch Linux and all the distributions based upon it, such as ArcoLinux, Manjaro, and Endeavour OS, are rolling release distributions. This is why they are updated on a daily basis and usually don’t remain stuck to the old version for too long. This acts as a clear advantage for the users as they get to use the latest and
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LightDM is a very lightweight Login manager which comes pre-installed in many distributions having low resource hungry desktop environments such as XFCE, MATE or Cinnamon. The vanilla settings such as background and themes of course look a bit boring but, because of the customization features of the Linux-based distributions, you can easily customize everything. It
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