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G4Music: A Lightweight and Beautiful Music Player for Linux Desktops

G4Music is a beautiful, fast, fluent and lightweight music player written in the GTK4 framework. It has a lot of features despite being extremely lightweight, and looks absolutely stunning with the blurred background on your desktop and if you use the GNOME desktop environment, then it integrates smoothly with your desktop theming. G4Music is not […]

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Hide Applications from the App Grid on GNOME DE with App Hider

GNOME desktop environment is becoming less customizable with each update. Even after the release of GTK-4, this move has been controversial among many users, as it is quite restrictive when you want to apply a custom theming to your desktop. One such move was that if you pin an app to the dock at the

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Rare: An Open Source Frontend for Epic Games Store

Rare is an open source lightweight frontend for the ‘Legendary’ command line launcher for the Epic Games Store. It can be seen as an alternative for Heroic Games launcher and/or Lutris, which are widely used to install and run games from EGS. Rare is cross-platform, and is available to install on Windows, macOS and Linux

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Heroic Games Launcher – Play your EGS and GOG library on Linux

Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source tool designed to optimize your gaming experience by allowing you to install and play games from your GOG and Epic Games Store Library. It is cross-platform and is available on Windows as well as macOS along with Linux. It uses the command line based Legendary launcher in the background

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Cartridges – A Simple game Launcher for Linux

There are many game launchers available for the Linux Desktop right now, including Heroic, Lutris, and Bottles etc. all with a different set of features. Lutris attempts to unify the GOG, Itch, Steam and Epic games and on the other hand Heroic unifies GOG and Epic Games at one place. Bottles is mostly used to

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Enable Newly Released Proton 8 on Steam Linux

Proton, a fork of the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications and games, is developed and maintained by Valve Software. Predominantly used to run Windows games on Linux via the Steam Store, Proton can also be enabled on platforms like Lutris, Bottles, and Heroic Games Launcher. Also read: How to Play PC Games on Linux

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Gaming on Linux: Exploring the Best Options for Gamers

Gaming on Linux has been a bumpy ride, a challenge taken up by hardcore penguins and deeply compromised gamers alike. In recent times however Linux has been flooded with good publicity and plenty of new recruits and converts… and these dues ex-Macintoshes and Windows lickers need games, dammit. Fortunately, these days they are being catered

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Fundamentals of Game Design: the Stages of Developing Video Games

Designing a video game involves multiple and complex stages. From the inception of an idea to the presentation in the market, it is a massive collaboration of efforts. This objective piece intends to create exposure to these fundamentals at every stage. During its creation, initial ideas are explored that then develop into more comprehensive concepts

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How To Install LibreOffice On Arch Linux

This to-the-point guide will help you install LibreOffice on Arch Linux. LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite and is often considered Linux’s equivalent of Microsoft Office. It is one of the essential apps to have on your Arch Distro, especially if you are planning to use it as your daily driver. Whether you’re

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Securing Your APIs: A Practical Guide to Robust API Security Testing

The purpose of API security is to ensure that API requests are authenticated, authorized, validated, and cleansed while the service is under load. API security differs from ordinary web servers in that a modern application or service has various API endpoints that use multiple protocols and request formats. Still, typical web servers only need to

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