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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A TP-Link Wi-Fi adapter needs a driver for its chipset, not for the TP-Link brand name alone. Identify the adapter’s USB ID first, use the Linux kernel driver when one already supports it, and install an out-of-tree module only when the exact chipset requires one. Find the TP-Link model, hardware version, and chipset Read the
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Chrome Picture-in-Picture on Linux puts a playing video in a small floating window that stays above your browser tabs and desktop applications. Start with Chrome’s Media control button because it needs no extension, then use the site menu or Google’s extension only when the first method is unavailable. Choose the Right Picture-in-Picture Method Picture-in-Picture (PiP)
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You can install LibreWolf on Linux from a distribution repository, Flathub, or the project’s AppImage. The right method depends on your distribution and CPU architecture, because Arch now carries LibreWolf in its official extra repository while the current AppImage download targets x86_64 systems. Choose the LibreWolf Package That Fits Your System A native package gives
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You can edit a Linux configuration file with any plain-text editor, but the safe workflow has four separate jobs: identify the file, save a backup, edit with the required permissions, and validate the new configuration before reloading the service. Treating the editor as the whole task is how a small typo becomes an outage. Find
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Weird Linux distros range from pop-star desktop themes to state-controlled operating systems, but not every famous entry fits the Linux distribution model. The useful distinction is what each project was built from, whether anyone maintains it, and whether you should treat it as software or as a historical artifact. Six unusual projects at a glance
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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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Spotube is an open-source music player built around installable metadata and audio-provider plugins. You can install Spotube on Linux, choose a provider you trust, browse its catalog, keep a local library, and manage playback without treating the app as an unofficial Spotify desktop client. What Spotube does on Linux Spotube runs as a native Flutter
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