Apex Legends is blocked on Linux by EA’s anti-cheat system Update, October 2026: Bad news for all of us, EA blocked Linux and Steam Deck access to Apex Legends on October 31, 2024, so the steps below no longer get you into online matches. Treat the Gold rating mentioned below as historical, since it predates that
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Btrfs on Ubuntu gives you snapshots, checksums and transparent compression from a filesystem that already lives inside the Linux kernel. Ubuntu’s desktop installer still offers ext4 as its default, so you add btrfs yourself with the btrfs-progs package. This guide formats a spare disk and mounts it. Then it goes further with subvolumes, zstd compression,
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Auto-cpufreq is an open-source tool that adjusts your CPU speed and power settings automatically on Linux. It lowers the clock on battery and lets the processor boost when you plug in or run heavy tasks. Unlike TLP or Powertop, it needs almost no tuning. This guide covers every install method, daemon setup, the config file,
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Figma on Ubuntu works best through Figma-Linux, an unofficial desktop app that wraps the Figma web editor in its own window. Figma has no official Linux client, so this community project fills the gap with a launcher icon, a separate window and local font support. This guide shows how to install Figma on Ubuntu with
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The banner command in Linux prints text in large letters made of the # character, which is a quick way to put a loud message on the terminal. People use it for login messages and script headers. The version on Debian and Ubuntu takes no options and prints only the first 10 characters of each
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Solar2D on Linux still works in 2026 but the install method you pick decides what you can build. The Snap package is stuck on a 2022 build while the engine itself has reached release 2026.3731. That gap changes which features and export targets you get. This guide covers the Snap install, a source build with
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To count lines in a file on Linux, run wc -l filename. The command counts newline characters so a file whose last line has no trailing newline reports one fewer than the lines you can actually read. This guide covers wc, grep, awk, sed and Bash for the same job. It also handles blank lines,
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Linux battery health comes down to two numbers: what the pack can hold today and what it held when it was new. The kernel exposes both. Tools like UPower, acpi and inxi simply read them. This guide shows how to check them from the terminal. Divide today’s figure by the design figure and you get
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GPRename is a lightweight GUI batch renamer for files and directories. I moved to the Cinnamon Desktop Environment from GNOME 42 to cut RAM usage and lost the Nautilus bulk rename feature, since Nemo has none. GPRename filled that gap with a window full of rename presets. This guide covers how to install gprename on
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Gradience recolors libadwaita apps and the Adwaita theme on GNOME through a simple GUI. The project was archived in 2024 and no longer gets updates, though it can still work on some setups, and a maintained fork now exists. This guide shows how to install Gradience, apply a palette, fix Flatpak apps, and undo every
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