ASCII art on Linux covers more ground than most guides let on: converting your own photos into terminal-friendly art, pulling up the Arch logo next to your system stats, or grabbing a ready-made logo to paste into a README. This guide walks through ascii-image-converter, the tool most people reach for first, then rounds up the […]
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Xfce vs KDE Plasma comes up any time a Linux beginner asks how to pick a desktop environment for an older laptop or a fresh install. KDE Plasma packs a customizable, Windows-like interface with polished apps like Dolphin and Krunner, while Xfce sticks to a minimal, modular design built to run on modest hardware. Neither
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You can ask Telnet to connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl and, when the service is delivering its animation, watch the ASCII version of Star Wars in a terminal. It is a network connection to a public server, so the remote host decides whether the film stream stays available. Connect to the ASCII Star Wars service Run the
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Two commands answer almost every storage question on a Linux box. lsblk shows the shape of your storage: which disks exist, how they are partitioned, and where each partition is mounted. blkid reads the filesystem metadata itself and prints the UUID, label, and filesystem type you need when editing /etc/fstab or writing udev rules. The
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Two commands cover most checksum and encoding work on Linux: md5sum produces a fixed fingerprint of a file, and base64 converts data into plain ASCII text so it can travel through channels that only accept text. They look similar in a terminal but do opposite jobs. The sections below show the difference through hashes, verified
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You run ls, scan a crowded directory, and still cannot tell which file changed most recently. The ls -ltr command solves that in four characters of flags: it prints full details for every entry and sorts them so the oldest file sits at the top and the newest sits at the bottom, right above your
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Handbrake is a highly advanced open source video transcoder with which you can encode your videos to different formats and codecs so that you can play them on different devices such as Mobile Phones, TVs, Game Consoles etc. It is a really simple application, but you can go to lengths to customize every single preset
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In this guide, we’ll go through the steps to create an encrypted persistent live Kali USB. Kali Linux is probably the most popular penetration testing Distro out there. However, due to it being a rolling release and unstable in nature, it is not advisable to run it as a daily driver. Steps to Setup Encrypted
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DuckStation Linux turns an old PlayStation 1 library into a fast, sandboxed emulator you can install with one command. The project is accurate and free, but its Linux story has gotten messier since the developer restricted the license and pulled Arch packaging in 2025. This guide covers installing DuckStation on Linux through Flatpak and AppImage,
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Typing every variable name in full gets old fast, even in an editor as efficient as Vim. CoC, short for Conquer of Completion, is a Language Server Protocol (LSP) client that brings IDE-style autocompletion to Vim and Neovim through a separate Node.js process. The steps below install it with the vim-plug plugin manager, add language
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