To listen to Apple Music on Linux, use its web player or a community desktop client such as Sidra. Apple Music streams songs and lets subscribers manage a library across supported devices. I’ll show you how to access Apple Music in a browser or set up Sidra, and explain what its desktop controls support. TL;DR:
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To divide a tar archive by size, pass its compressed data to GNU split after XZ compresses it. The resulting part files are pieces of one compressed stream. I’ll show how to restore the parts and check the reconstructed archive before extraction. TL;DR Pipe a tar archive through xz and split its compressed byte stream,
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Getting Red Hat Linux ready to install starts with choosing an image that matches the target system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is Red Hat’s enterprise Linux distribution, and an ISO image is a file used to boot or install it. This guide shows how to select and download an installation image, then compare its
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Checking whether League of Legends can run on Linux means checking Riot’s platform support and Vanguard’s requirements. Vanguard requires a driver at the operating-system level, which Wine cannot provide. You’ll see why a Lutris listing does not mean the game is playable, and what to check if an older guide is already installed. TL;DR League
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Getting Picom running on X11 means installing its package, setting up a configuration file, and choosing how it starts. Picom combines X11 window surfaces into one screen image and can add effects such as shadows and background blur. You’ll learn how to install Picom and copy its sample configuration, then how to check a foreground
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Converting an HEVC video to H.264 can help when a player supports H.264 but cannot decode HEVC at the needed speed. FFmpeg re-encodes the video stream and can copy selected audio and subtitle streams into a new MKV file. I’ll show how to check an input video and encode a new MKV with FFmpeg. TL;DR
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Choosing a Linux app for your e-book library starts with knowing what it does and how to install it. Librum is an open-source reader and library manager that supports formats including PDF, EPUB and CBZ. I’ll walk through installing Librum with Flatpak and checking whether its Flathub package is marked end-of-life. TL;DR Check the Flathub
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi starts with putting an operating system on its microSD card. Raspberry Pi Imager is the current official installer for choosing an operating system and its target storage. This article explains what NOOBS was and shows how to use Imager to write and verify Raspberry Pi OS. TL;DR Use Raspberry Pi
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Deciding how to structure software means weighing where focused programs help and where a larger application fits. The Unix philosophy is a set of design ideas for building software from focused programs. This article explains how its core principles fit together and shows how to apply them to a task. TL;DR The Unix philosophy favors
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When you want an image to appear as text, ASCII art gives you a character-based way to show it. On Linux, ascii-image-converter reduces an image to a grid and chooses characters based on each part’s brightness. I’ll show how to convert an image with ascii-image-converter and adjust the output for a terminal or saved text
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