Flatpak applications are sandboxed and hence cannot access any other files on your system, while this is a good practice for privacy reasons, there are downsides to using Flatpaks as well. The downside is all the Flatpak applications take up large space on your disk, and they do not respect your Desktop theme. While you […]
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The problem with being up-to-date with all the software packages is that you have to encounter bugs. Sometimes the developers do not test their applications enough and push for updates everywhere and the end user has to suffer (note that FOSS applications do not come with a warranty). And sometimes when everything is perfect on
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QuickEMU is a Terminal based virtual machine manager. It is very lightweight and can automatically download the ISOs of any version of any Linux distribution (or even Windows) on your system in a simple and fast manner. It is very different from other Virtual Machine managers as it automatically does many things which you would
Flatpaks are just one of the many solutions offered on the Linux desktop to solve the problem of ‘too many package managers’. However, it is very different from any package manager such as pacman (On Arch Linux), dnf (On Fedora Workstation) or apt in so many ways. According to the official documentation, It is essentially
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Auto-CPUFreq is an open-source tool which is an automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux desktops. If you are using your laptop on battery, then it reduces the frequency of your CPU and if you launch any resource-heavy task which increases the system load, then it increases the CPU frequency (and the power usage).
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CPU-X is an open source application for those users who used CPU-Z on Windows and are now looking for a similar GUI alternative in the Linux world because CPU-Z is not available on Linux. While you can certainly use something like Neofetch to display some information about your system in the Terminal, CPU-Z shows highly
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Razergenie is an open-source GUI application that uses OpenRazer daemon in the background to manage RGB on all your Razer devices and peripherals. Linux gaming is on the rise and as we all know that RGB increases gaming performance, therefore we will try to configure the RGB on your device to make it more beautiful
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MangoHud is an open-source tool used for monitoring system vitals such as GPU, CPU, and RAM usage and temperatures as well as the frame rate of the currently running game. It is a replacement for MSI Afterburner, which is only available on Windows. This tool is highly configurable as well if you know how to
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a classic open-world game developed by CD Project Red. This game used to run flawlessly on Linux and also had a Platinum rating on ProtonDB. However, the free Next-Gen update offered for free by the company on 14 December has completely borked the game, if you play the game
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We all have always wanted to have a unified launcher/installer for different stores such as Steam, Humble Bundle, Epic Games and GOG so that we only have to install a single app to play them all without bearing the hassle of looking up which games belong where. GameHub is one such application which attempts to
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