Compressed files on Linux come in several formats, such as .zip and .tar.gz, and each format is unpacked with its own command. A small Bash function called extract can check the file’s ending and run the right tool for you. The guide explains which command each format needs, then shows you how to add that
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Playing Windows games on Linux through Steam or Lutris involves a compatibility tool, such as a Proton release, that you can choose for each game. ProtonPlus is an app that downloads those tools from their projects and puts them where your launcher expects them. I’ll walk you through installing ProtonPlus from Flathub and assigning a
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Linux uses groups to decide which users can share access to files and services, and giving someone that access can mean adding their account to a group. The groupadd command creates a new group, and usermod adds an existing user to one. This guide walks you through checking whether the group already exists, then adding
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Every file on Linux has rules for who can read it, change it or run it, and a script you’ve just downloaded often won’t run until you change those rules. chmod is the command that changes them, and chown changes who owns the file. In this piece, I’ll explain what those permissions mean and walk
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Searching a folder with find goes through every subfolder inside it, so one directory full of files you don’t care about can crowd your results. Excluding that directory tells find to skip it entirely, so it never looks at the files under it. Here I’ll skip one directory with find’s -prune option, then extend the
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The independent teams-for-linux project is an Electron desktop wrapper for the Teams web client. I notice the key distinction: Microsoft documents web and PWA access, while teams-for-linux is an independent project. Compare the browser and PWA options Microsoft provides for Linux. Then see what each option gives you when you open Teams. What is Microsoft
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I was surprised to find that apt update refreshes package indexes but does not update installed software. apt upgrade applies available upgrades without removing installed packages. Explore what package management does on Linux. You can use that as your starting point for understanding your distribution’s package manager. What package management does on Linux Linux package
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That loopback limit catches my attention: a remote viewer cannot connect directly to the server’s public address because TigerVNC is limited to localhost. The SSH tunnel forwards viewer traffic to the server’s loopback address, while VNC stays on loopback. The next step is to look at the session TigerVNC creates on Debian. That gives you
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A file’s name on Linux doesn’t always tell you what’s inside, since a file ending in .dat can hold plain text. The file command looks at the contents and tells you what kind of data the file holds. I’ll show you how to check one file or many at once, and how to get output
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-y used to display differences in files side by side -s Report when two compared files are identical -r If a directory is specified, this option will compare any subdirectories found. -i Since Linux is case sensitive, this option will ignore all case sensitive differences. -B Ignore blank lines and don’t show them as differences
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