GNOME Boxes gives you a GNOME desktop interface for creating and running virtual machines. Install it when you need a Linux or Windows guest without changing your current boot setup, then use an ISO image or a supported download inside the app. What GNOME Boxes runs Boxes is GNOME’s desktop app for virtual and remote
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Install HP printer drivers on Linux from your distribution repository first. HPLIP, short for HP Linux Imaging and Printing, supplies the HP-specific CUPS driver, device tools, and scanner support that many HP printers need. Check whether your printer needs HPLIP HPLIP is the useful next step when your HP printer is not detected, a scan
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You can install a full Linux system on a USB drive or external SSD and boot it on compatible PCs when you identify the target drive before partitioning and keep both Linux partitions and UEFI boot files on that drive. Choose a full installation, not a persistent live USB A persistent live USB keeps changes
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WhatsApp does not offer a Linux desktop download. I checked WhatsApp’s current download page, which sends unsupported devices to WhatsApp Web. You can use that official browser route, install it as a browser app, or choose an unofficial wrapper when you want a separate window and desktop integration. Use WhatsApp Web for the official Linux
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Install Xorg when you need an X11 session or an application that depends on one, not as a substitute for your distribution’s default desktop session. Use the package names for your distribution, then start X through your display manager or xinit rather than launching the server by hand. Choose the Xorg package for your distribution
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The login screen comes from a LightDM greeter, so changing the desktop wallpaper does not necessarily change what appears before sign-in. For the LightDM GTK greeter, the supported configuration names the background file and GTK theme inside its greeter section. I checked the maintained greeter configuration template and the Debian package metadata for the commands
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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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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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