A program on Linux rarely carries every function it needs inside its own binary. When you build an app that links against a library you downloaded as a .so file, the compile succeeds but running it can still fail with an error about a missing library. The fix is three commands long, and understanding what […]
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gh is GitHub’s official command line tool. It manages pull requests, issues, releases, and repositories from your terminal, next to the git commands you already run. If you want to install gh cli on Linux quickly on Ubuntu or Debian, sudo apt install gh works because gh is in the Ubuntu universe and Debian main
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A .Z file is a compressed archive created with the Unix compress command and the LZW algorithm. When a download, backup script, or old software dump hands you a file ending in .Z, this tutorial shows you how to get your data back with uncompress, gzip -d, or znew. What is a .Z file? The
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A Raspberry Pi GUI turns the little board from a command-line-only machine into something you point and click through, just like a regular desktop. Raspberry Pi OS ships a Lite edition with no desktop at all, so plenty of owners end up adding one later. This guide covers installing it, booting straight into it, reaching
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Setting up a GNOME tiling window manager doesn’t mean switching to i3 or Sway instead. A handful of extensions bring keyboard and mouse-driven tiling to the stock desktop, without the learning curve a dedicated tiling window manager demands. This guide covers Tiling Shell, the extension most people land on, plus the alternatives and the GNOME
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Linux curses programming starts with one header file: curses.h. Any program that needs to move a cursor, paint colors or build a text-based menu without shelling out to raw terminal escape codes needs it. This guide helps you install curses.h through the ncurses library on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch and Alpine, along with the basics of
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Wayland’s fractional scaling keeps the desktop sharp on a HiDPI screen, but Steam and the games it launches often get a completely different picture. A monitor set to 150% or 200% scaling gets reported to games as a smaller, lower-resolution display, so a title like Portal 2 or a Proton game such as Rocket League
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ProtonPlus on Linux installs Proton, Wine, DXVK and VKD3D without touching Steam’s settings menu at all. Built with GTK4 and libadwaita, ProtonPlus now manages Steam, Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, Bottles, Faugus Launcher and WineZGUI from one window and can edit per-game launch options directly. Anyone using Heroic or Lutris without Steam installed can pull in
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Installing IntelliJ IDEA on Linux comes down to four supported methods: JetBrains Toolbox, the official tarball, Snap, and Flatpak. Each one now installs the same unified IDE, since JetBrains merged Community and Ultimate into a single product with IDEA 2025.3. This guide walks through every method, how to launch the IDE afterward, and how Community
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Streaming an HEVC (x265) rip from a Jellyfin server on a Raspberry Pi is a fast way to peg the CPU and stutter playback, since HEVC needs far more horsepower to decode than H.264 does without a dedicated chip. The fix is to convert HEVC to H.264 with ffmpeg, since H.264 (x264) plays back on
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