The banner command in Linux prints text in large letters made of the # character, which is a quick way to put a loud message on the terminal. People use it for login messages and script headers. The version on Debian and Ubuntu takes no options and prints only the first 10 characters of each
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Color picker Linux tools read the color under your cursor and give you a hex or RGB code to paste into CSS or a design file. Color Picker (the app once called Gcolor3) does this in a small GTK window. This guide installs it with apt, dnf, pacman, Flatpak or Snap. It then covers how
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Linux Mint Debian Edition looks like a second Cinnamon download on Mint’s page, but the base underneath is different. LMDE 7 “Gigi” runs on Debian 13 while Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” runs on Ubuntu 24.04. That choice changes your kernel, your driver setup and the packages you can install. Mint 27 is also planned for
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Solar2D on Linux still works in 2026 but the install method you pick decides what you can build. The Snap package is stuck on a 2022 build while the engine itself has reached release 2026.3731. That gap changes which features and export targets you get. This guide covers the Snap install, a source build with
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To count lines in a file on Linux, run wc -l filename. The command counts newline characters so a file whose last line has no trailing newline reports one fewer than the lines you can actually read. This guide covers wc, grep, awk, sed and Bash for the same job. It also handles blank lines,
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A Mattermost install on Linux starts with choosing a package format that matches your distro and your update habits. The desktop app is an Electron client (a web app wrapped in a native window) that talks to a Mattermost server. This guide covers apt, Snap, rpm, Flatpak, AppImage, tarball and pacman installs for Mattermost Desktop
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Linux battery health comes down to two numbers: what the pack can hold today and what it held when it was new. The kernel exposes both. Tools like UPower, acpi and inxi simply read them. This guide shows how to check them from the terminal. Divide today’s figure by the design figure and you get
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Linux CAD software covers more ground than most people expect. FreeCAD handles parametric parts and LibreCAD handles 2D drafting. OpenSCAD builds solids from code while SolveSpace and BRL-CAD take constraint-driven and Boolean approaches. This guide compares five free tools by how they model geometry. It also lists current versions and Linux install routes so you
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GPRename is a lightweight GUI batch renamer for files and directories. I moved to the Cinnamon Desktop Environment from GNOME 42 to cut RAM usage and lost the Nautilus bulk rename feature, since Nemo has none. GPRename filled that gap with a window full of rename presets. This guide covers how to install gprename on
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Gradience recolors libadwaita apps and the Adwaita theme on GNOME through a simple GUI. The project was archived in 2024 and no longer gets updates, though it can still work on some setups, and a maintained fork now exists. This guide shows how to install Gradience, apply a palette, fix Flatpak apps, and undo every
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