Cinnamon Desktop Environment is one of the many lightweight DEs available for older hardware. It merely uses 650MB on a fresh boot, and the interface is easy to use for people migrating from macOS as well as Windows. It was derived from the GNOME 3 project because the developers didn’t like the changes in the
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MATE is a lightweight and simple Desktop Environment which is a fork of the GNOME 2 project. It is under active development while preserving the traditional ‘GNOME 2’ look and feel. It ships by default in many Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu Mate and Linux Mint. Although developed by the Ubuntu Mate team, this DE
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If you want to make your next Linux interview easier, look no further. Here are some of the top 50 shell script questions that you will most likely be asked in your Linux interviews. The questions are categorized for better skimmability. Basic Questions Asked in Shell Script Interviews 1. What is a shell? A shell
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In this article, we are going to take a closer look at the Cinnamon and MATE desktop environments and make a quick comparison between them. Firstly, let us see what a desktop environment means to a Linux distro. Desktop environment refers to the collection of all the software elements that make up the Graphical User
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yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dlc with additional features and fixes of the now-inactive YouTube-dl tool, which was an open source command-line program to download videos and playlists from various websites, including YouTube. It is a really useful tool which allows you to download videos, audio and subtitle as well, at a specific resolution. You
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It has been well over a year since the Raspberry Pi foundation released its own version of a microcontroller, namely the Raspberry Pi Pico. The Pi Pico boasts the fast and lightweight RP2040 chip that has been developed by the Raspberry pi foundation. Makers everywhere in the world have warmly welcomed the Pi Pico and
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There are numerous ways through which you can install any application on Linux. Package managers, Flatpaks and snaps are the most used package managers on distributions, but there is another way – AppImages. AppImages are standalone applications which do not need to be installed on your distribution and can run directly using a launcher. Although,
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I recently switched to the Cinnamon Desktop Environment from GNOME 42 because of excessive RAM usage. Now, I used the bulk rename feature of the Nautilus file manager very regularly to rename files via the GUI, but this feature was not available in the Nemo file manager which is the default in the Cinnamon Desktop
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DuckDuckGo is one of the most private search engines available to use on any web browser. It does not track you in any manner (unless you use the DuckDuckGo browser) and gives you just the result of your query (unlike Google, which gives you a search result based on your history). You still have to
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KDE is a software community which develops free software. KDE desktop i.e. Plasma is a very popular environment for Linux systems. Known for its beauty it is a highly customisable graphical workspace. Most famous distributions like Kubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora, etc. come preloaded with KDE desktop. It provides a wide range of apps, plugins, themes, widgets,
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