You often lose the sense of time and weather while sitting in a closed room or an office the whole day. Perhaps you entered your office on a bright sunny morning and when your shift ended and surprise! It’s pouring outside. Maybe you should install a weather forecasting application on your Linux system that can …
Printer support on Linux can be a hit or miss. Vendors usually support the Windows and macOS platform, and they rarely have open-sourced their drivers. In the condition that the vendors have published the closed-source drivers, some Linux distribution maintainers might prefer not to ship it with their distribution because of the open-source philosophy. We …
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Nowadays, it is impossible to do anything on the Internet without being tracked by media corporations. Online services that claim to be free often collect your data and either sell it, or show you ads based on that collected data. Open Source applications are free as well most of the time, and they do not …
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I’ve been daily driving and have been recommending Fedora Workstation to anyone whom I want to introduce to the Linux world since Fedora 36. However, I often realize that I’ve had to do so many post-installation tweaks to the default out-of-the-box Fedora system. By default, there are no proprietary things installed and even the Non-Free …
Synaptic Package Manager, a GUI and command-line installer supports Debian, Ubuntu, and its derivatives. It is capable of showing you all the packages installed on your system, unlike the GNOME Software Manager which only lists GUI applications. Now, Synaptic is not available to use on any other distribution like Fedora or Arch Linux, but there …
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Not every task can be performed on the Linux desktop without going through the hassle, and even after a lot of tinkering, some of the things just do not work. Certain programs are simply not available on Linux, such as the Adobe creative suite or games which use kernel-level anti-cheat to name a few. So, …
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If you have ever used the GNOME desktop environment on any Linux distribution, you might have noticed many applications utilizing the GTK4 Adwaita theme. This is a GNOME developers’ initiative to make all applications on Linux appear uniform and part of the same ecosystem. Many applications of the GNOME Circle have been updating to this …
Need to download something from the Internet? Or do you want to change the format of any video which is posted online? Linux terminal application such as wget and ffmpeg does these jobs really fast. But understandably, not everyone likes to use the Terminal. Although you can do everything it does from the command line …
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Adwaita is the default light and dark theme of the GNOME desktop environment. This, along with the GTK4 library, attempts to provide a more ‘unified’ look across all the applications which are installed on the GNOME desktop. Which is very hard to do since the applications are very fragmented across many distributions and libraries. KDE …
Because of less number of users, Linux usually does not get support from many Hardware and Software companies, and because these companies don’t support Linux, people do not migrate to Linux. This chicken and egg problem has existed for a long time in the Linux world. Installing Canon printer drivers on a Linux system involves …
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