Index of Linux Tips ArticlesAudio/VideoA Few Geeky YouTube ChannelsA Few Good Linux ChannelsIncrease The Volume Of Thunderbird NotificationsLet’s Disable Your WebcamPlay H.264 Encoded Video On UbuntuRemove Default Music Player In Elementary OSCommand Line‘vnStat’ A Tool For Monitoring Your Bandwidth UsageA Few Ways to Determine Which Distro and Version You’re UsingA Little About The ‘echo’ CommandA Quick Look At The Cat CommandA Quick Look At The Shutdown CommandAnother Way To Show Mounted FilesystemsAvoid Storing Commonly Used Commands In Your Bash HistoryBetter Network Diagnostics With MTRBoot To Text Mode In LinuxChange Ownership Of Files And FoldersChange Your HostnameClear Cache, Buffer, And Swap SpaceClear The TerminalConvert Disk Image Formats To .ISOCount The Number Of Running Processes Per UserCreate A New User In LinuxDemystifying journalctl: A Comprehensive Guide to Linux System LoggingDid You Know You Have A Calendar In The Terminal?Don’t Let Applications Close When The Terminal Is ClosedEasily Monitor Your Wireless ConnectionEnable x11 Forwarding With SSH (Remotely Use GUI Applications)Find A Program’s PID (Process Identification)Find An Application’s Process ID (PID)Find Files Owned By A Specific UserFind Multiple Filenames By Extension – With LocateFind Out When A File Was CreatedFind Out Which Display-Manager You’re UsingFind Out Which Shell You’re UsingFind Recently Modified FilesFind The Boot Processes That Slow You DownFind Your Network Interface NameFix Terminal Command MistakesGenerate Random NumbersHide The Output From wgetHow About A Brief Overview Of The Cat Command?How Long is my Ubuntu Support Going to Last?How To: Add A New Line With CURLHow To: Change The Port SSH UsesHow To: Change The TimezoneHow To: Change The UUID For Your Disk PartitionsHow To: Check CPU Temps With lm_sensorsHow To: Check Disk Usage With ‘df’How To: Clear The Terminal ScreenHow To: Count Letters, Words, and LinesHow To: Create Custom Welcome Message In Your TerminalHow To: Decompress tar.bz2 FilesHow To: Display System Information With screenFetchHow To: Display Your Fortune In The TerminalHow To: Extract An .rar FileHow To: Find Files Over A Certain SizeHow To: Find Files Owned By A Specific UserHow To: Find Multiple Filenames By ExtensionHow To: Find The File Type In The Linux TerminalHow To: Find The RAM Total In The TerminalHow To: Find Your Man Pages’ Location On DiskHow To: Find Your Timezone In The TerminalHow To: Find Your Uptime In LinuxHow To: Generate a List of Installed Applications in LinuxHow To: Go To A Specific Line In NanoHow To: Have Infinite Bash HistoryHow To: Install PIP In LinuxHow To: Install Wine In LubuntuHow To: List All Users In LinuxHow To: Make ‘wget’ Ignore Certificate ErrorsHow To: Not Save A Command To Bash HistoryHow To: Remove A Package With YUMHow To: Restart TeamViewer From The TerminalHow To: Return To The Previous Working Directory In The TerminalHow To: Search For Files By NameHow To: Search With aptHow To: Show All Environment VariablesHow To: Sort Text AlphabeticallyHow To: Stop, Pause, and Resume Processes Running in Your TerminalHow To: String Commands Together In The TerminalHow To: Test Your Drive Speed In The Linux TerminalHow To: Update From The Terminal In FedoraHow To: Update OpenSUSE Tumbleweed From The TerminalHow To: Update Ubuntu From The TerminalHow To: Write Text To A File From The Terminal with “>” and “>>”How To: Zip Files In LubuntuInstall An FTP Server With VSFTPDInstall SSH to Remotely Control Your Linux ComputersIs My System Capable of 32 or 64 Bit Linux?It’s Time To Introduce You To The Terminator!Kill Frozen Applications The Easy WayLet’s Delete An Entry In Your Bash HistoryLet’s Have A Happy New Year In The TerminalLet’s Have a Limited Look at Linux’s cURL ApplicationLet’s Have Christmas In The TerminalLet’s Install INXILet’s Learn A Little About The ‘dir’ CommandLet’s Learn About Absolute And Relative PathsLet’s Learn About GrepLet’s Learn About HaltLet’s Learn How To Change The Default TerminalLet’s Learn To Remove A DirectoryLet’s Let AI Write An Article About ‘sed’Let’s Make A Symbolic LinkLet’s Make The rm Command A Little SaferLet’s Make The rm Command Even SaferLet’s Play Around With The ‘MV’ CommandLet’s Play Around With The Linux Shell.Let’s Talk About Using dos2unixLet’s Upgrade Fedora From The TerminalLet’s Zip A Directory In The Linux TerminalLocate Your Home DirectoryMake Ubuntu Provide Feedback (Asterisks) When Typing Passwords In The TerminalMastering the Linux Terminal Pipe CommandMastering The Power Of Linux Tee CommandMonitor Progress With RSYNCNavigate To The Start Or End Of The Line (In The Terminal)Pause And Unpause Your TerminalPlaying With Your Bash HistoryPrevent Application Updates With ‘APT-MARK’Prevent Application Updates With ‘YUM-VERSIONLOCK’Repair Your Filesystem With FSCKRepair Your Linux Filesystem With a Live USB or DVDRerun The Previous Terminal CommandSave A Command’s Output To A File (While Showing It In The Terminal)Screenfetch vs. Neofetch, You Decide!Search For Command History By DateSearch Your Man Pages With AproposSet A Timeout Value In cURLShort: Automatically Add An Extension To Multiple Files In The Linux TerminalShort: Fix Typos With A CaretShort: Move A File To Multiple DirectoriesShow A Random Fortune When You Open Your TerminalShow A Specific Networking InterfaceSo, What Is ‘sudo’ Anyhow?Some Fun With Formatting The Output From ‘ls’Some Fun With Sorting The Output Of ‘ls’Sort Files By Size (In The Terminal)Strip Password From A Password-Protected PDFTerminology: View Pictures And Video Directly In Your TerminalThe Differences Between APT and APT-GET.Time A Command To See How Long It Takes To RunToday, We Have Fun In The Linux TerminalTurn Your Man Pages Into HTMLTurn Your Ubuntu Into A Wireless HotspotUse A GUI To Manage Debian’s Software RepositoriesWant To See The WiFi Password In The Terminal?Weather In The Terminal? We can do that!What is my Hostname in Linux?When Did I Install Linux? (Expanded Edition!)When Did I Last Reboot My Linux Box?GeneralA Little About The ‘tail’ CommandbalenaEtcher: A Tool To Turn Linux .ISO Files Into Bootable USB DrivesChange Your Timezone In LinuxCheck Your Linux Kernel Log For Errors With ‘dmesg’Compare Two Text Files Side By SideCompress A File With WinRARCount The Files In A DirectoryDelete Directories From The Terminal In LinuxDetermine If You’re Using UEFIDisable Printing And CUPS.Finally, an Answer to What is The Best Linux Distro?Find Files Created On A Specific DateFind Out What A File IsFind Your Linux System’s TimezoneFind Your Username In LinuxGet System Information With The ‘uname’ Command In LinuxGuest Article: Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSIs)Guest Article: What Are SSH Keys?How Do I Install Linux (A General Guide)How To: Add A User To A GroupHow To: Ask A Good Support QuestionHow To: Change Ubuntu Into LubuntuHow To: Compress And Decompress .bz2 FilesHow To: Create And Enable A SwapfileHow To: Determine Your Desktop EnvironmentHow To: Find Large Files Using ‘ncdu’How To: Find Your Present Working DirectoryHow To: Graphically Check Your Logs For Errors With ‘KSystemLog’How To: Graphically Login as Root in UbuntuHow To: List Cron JobsHow To: List Open FilesHow To: Mount An .iso In LinuxHow To: Properly Delete a User’s AccountHow To: Show Hidden Files And FoldersHow To: Shutdown Linux From The TerminalHow To: Terminate A Terminal CommandHow To: Unzip All The Files In A DirectoryHow To: Use Wayland in a Live Ubuntu InstanceI’ll Try To Answer The Question, “Should I Use Linux?”If you’re seeing this…If you’re seeing this…It’s Time To Learn A Little About The ‘head’ CommandLet’s Count The Running Processes In LinuxLet’s Have Some Fun With Cowsay And FortuneLet’s Install Ubuntu Restricted ExtrasLet’s Use ‘ls’ To Sort Files By TimeLinux Installation USB Media Using WindowsLinux Tips: A Comprehensive Guide for Optimizing Your SystemmacOS vs Linux: Comparative AnalysisMeta Article, Something like #9…Meta: I Should Have Numbered TheseMeta: The State Of Linux Tips #15PDF Exif DataRepair Your Linux Boot Process With ‘Boot-Repair’Setting Up Coding Environments on Linux for Educational UseShort: Show The Groups You Belong ToShow Date And Time In The TerminalShow Running ProcessesWelcome to Our New Home!What It Means To VolunteerWhat it’s Like To Beta-test Linux, Specifically LubuntuWhat You Need To Know About Linux’s Magic SysRq KeyYet Another Way To Find Files By ExtensionGraphicsA Couple Of Ways To Get Your Graphics Card InformationA Couple of Ways To Resize Images With ImageMagickChange Between CLI and GUI ModeCheck Your Frames Per Second (FPS) From The TerminalFind Your Graphics Card InformationHow To Tell If You’re Using Wayland Or X11How To: Convert JPG to PNGLet’s Make An Animated GIF (With ImageMagick)Let’s Reduce The Size Of .png FilesMake A Website Screenshot With CutyCaptOpen ‘WebP’ Images In Linux MintTake A Terminal Screenshot In TerminatorTake, Edit, And Upload Screenshots With ShutterTurn A JPG Into A PDFHardwareA Couple More Ways To Find Your File System TypeA Couple Of Ways To Monitor Swap UsageA Few Ways To Count CPU Processors Or CoresA Few Ways To Visualize Disk Usage In LinuxA Fun Way To Check If Your Network Devices Are ConnectedA Little About The ‘lscpu’ CommandA Little About The ‘lspci’ CommandA Little About The ‘lsusb’ Command.Another Way To View Attached Storage DevicesAutomatically Enable Num Lock In Linux MintBenchmark Your GPU In LubuntuBenchmark Your Linux Box With Geekbench 5Check Disk Speed In The TerminalCheck Memory Usage With ‘free’ In LinuxCheck Your (Write) Disk Speed In The TerminalCheck Your Memory In The Terminal: Part IICheck Your NIC Speed In The TerminalDisable The Caps Lock Key In Linux MintEnable fsck On System StartEnable/Disable Your Network InterfaceFind And Remove Duplicate Files With fdupesFind The Last Filesystem CheckFind Your Last Boot Time In LinuxGather Storage Disk Information With ‘smartctl’Get Hardware Info With ‘dmidecode’Get Some Prettified CPU Information in Your Terminal With ‘CPUFETCH’Get Your NVMe SSD InformationGraphically Examine Hardware Info With HardInfoGuest Article: Kickstart Vol. IIGuest Article: Kickstart Vol. IIIHow do I ‘Boot to USB’? (Or CD/DVD, if Such is Available)How To: (More or Less) Learn if Your Hardware Will Work With LinuxHow To: Check A Disk For ErrorsHow To: Check For Bad Sectors On Your DisksHow To: Check Your Hard Drive TemperatureHow To: Clear SwapHow To: Disable CPU CoresHow To: Disable The Caps Lock KeyHow To: Find The File System TypeHow To: Find Your CPU InformationHow To: Get CDROM/DVD Information From The Linux TerminalHow To: Install Proprietary Drivers In UbuntuHow To: List Mounted PartitionsHow To: List USB DevicesHow To: Make A Linux Install USBHow To: Show Disk Information With hwinfoHow To: Show Your Hard Drive Specifications In The TerminalHow To: Tell If You Are You Using UEFI or BIOSHow To: Use S.M.A.R.T. To Check Disk HealthIs Your Storage Drive An SSD Or An HDD?Let’s Determine The Number of RAM Slots Without Opening The CaseLet’s Find The Size Of A DirectoryMonitor Disk Usage With GDUMonitor USB BandwidthOne Way To See CPU InformationReboot From The TerminalRemove A Swap FileShow Disk Usage With ‘ncdu’Show Mounted PartitionsShow RAM Information With RamfetchShow USB Devices In A GUI In LubuntuShow Your Filesystem In The Linux TerminalShow Your Graphics Card VersionShow Your USB Devices In The Linux TerminalTest Your Storage Drive’s Read SpeedThe du Command In LinuxThe Meaning Of “Load Average” On Linux?View Detailed Hardware InformationView Disk UsageYet Another Way To Check Filesystem Space UseHistory[Fixed] A Rambling Post About Switching To LinuxHistory: How Linux Got The Name “Linux”The “Linux” or “GNU/Linux” DebateWhat Exactly Is A Linux Distro?MetaA Meta Post: The State Of Linux TipsBonus Article: KGIII Rants A Little About SecurityMeta Article: The State Of Linux Tips?Meta Post: The State of Linux-Tips.usMeta: 200th PostMeta: Getting Indexed In BingMeta: Happy Holidays!Meta: Happy New Year From Linux-Tips!Meta: I’m Now An Official Lubuntu (And Ubuntu) Member!Meta: I’ve Been At This For Three Years!Meta: The State Of Linux Tips #12Meta: The State Of Linux Tips #13Meta: The State Of Linux Tips #14Meta: The State Of Linux Tips #16Meta: The State Of Linux Tips #22Meta: The State Of Linux Tips #23Meta: The State Of Linux-Tips #10Meta: The State Of Linux-Tips #11Meta: The State Of Linux-Tips #17Meta: The State Of Linux-Tips #18Meta: The State Of Linux-Tips #19Meta: The State Of Linux-Tips #20Meta: The State Of Linux-Tips #21Running Away From WindowsThe State of Linux-Tips.us, a Meta PostToday’s Article Is Just A Lubuntu (And Ubuntu) Membership UpdateWhy I Use LinuxNetworking‘traceroute’ in Linux, Let’s Take a Closer Look!A Couple More Ways To Find Your Network InterfacesAdd A Message Of the Day (MOTD) To SSHAnother Way To Find A Website’s IP AddressBring Your Network Up Or Down (In The Terminal)Change Your DNS Servers To Google’s In LubuntuChange Your Hostname In LinuxCheck Your SSH Server ConfigurationControl Your WiFi With ‘rfkill’ And MoreDisable WiFi From The TerminalFTP From The Linux TerminalGeolocate A WebsiteHow To: Show An SSH BannerHow To: Boot An SSH UserHow To: Change DNS ServersHow To: Clear the DNS CacheHow To: Enable NTP In LinuxHow To: Find A Site’s NameserversHow To: Find A Website’s IP AddressHow To: Find Local Network DevicesHow To: Find Your IP Address Through Your TerminalHow To: Hide The Output From wgetHow To: Login To SSH To Run One CommandHow To: Make ‘curl’ Ignore Certificate ErrorsHow To: Rename Your Network Adapters in UbuntuHow To: Restart SSHHow To: Show Your Network InterfacesHow To: Test Your Bandwidth From The TerminalHow To: Transfer Files Over SSH with SCPLearn About Your Wireless ConnectionLet’s Find A Site’s MX RecordsLet’s Talk About The Deep Web vs Dark WebLet’s Use ‘netstat’ To Find Out What Process Is Listening On A Specific PortLimit The Download Speed For ‘wget’Make ‘wget’ Resume From An Interrupted DownloadMonitor Bandwidth In Real TimeMonitor Bandwidth With nloadMonitor Network Usage On A Per-Application BasisMonitor TCP/UDP In Real TimeMonitor Wireless Link QualityMonitor Your Wi-Fi In LinuxPing With IPv4 Or IPv6Rename A File Downloaded With ‘wget’Save A Web Page As TextSend A Message To Another Logged In UserSend A Message To Logged In UsersSync Mega.nz On Ubuntu 22.04TeamViewer; My Most-Recent Favorite Alternative To VNC.Temporarily Set A Static IP AddressUse Your Hostname With SSH Instead Of Your IP Address – In UbuntuUsing The SSH Verbose ModeVisualize Your Network Traffic With ‘darkstat’Who is, Simply whoisNewshardinfo Has Been Rebooted As hardinfo2How To: Cancel Your LastPass AccountHow To: Find Linux NewsLegitimate Reasons To Not Use LinuxNews: Linux-Tips Has Reached It’s Two Year Anniversary!NEWS: List Your LUG At A New LUG RepositoryRevisiting Christmas In The TerminalSo, My AdSense Account Has Been DisabledSome Opinions (News?) About Purism.ProgrammingHow To: Install Eclipse On Ubuntu 20.04You Can, And Probably Should, Use VSCodium Instead Of VSCodeReviewsDooble Browser: A ReviewHow To: Install XnView MP On UbuntuReview: It Appears That uMatrix Is Back Under DevelopmentReview: MetaClean (Clean Exif/meta Data From Email Attachments Automatically)Review: The SpaceFM File Manager For LinuxReview: Ubuntu CleanerTop 10 Reasons Why I Use LinuxSecurityAdd User To The ‘sudoers’ GroupAutomatically Logout Of Your ShellBlock A Specific Port In Linux MintChange Snap Application Privileges In LubuntuChange The ‘sudo’ Password TimeoutCheck To See If SELinux Is WorkingDisable Inactive SSH SessionsDisable Specific Terminal CommandsDisallow Directory Listing (in the terminal)Disallow SSH Login For A Specific UserFind Files Modified On A Specific DayHas Your Email/Phone (Personal Information) Been Involved In A Data Breach?How To: Access Tor While Using T-MobileHow To: Change Your Password In The TerminalHow To: Check If A Specific Port Is OpenHow To: Crack A PDF PasswordHow To: Create a New User Without a /home DirectoryHow To: Disable Password Login For SSHHow To: Enable The Root Account in UbuntuHow To: Encrypt A USB DriveHow To: Generate Sufficiently Complex Passwords In The TerminalHow To: Kill A User SessionHow To: Lock Out A User AccountHow To: Protect a file or directory from being deleted or changed by rootHow To: Remove AppArmor From UbuntuHow To: Sanitize Exif Data From Your Digital Images For Privacy SakeHow To: Scan A Remote Host For Open PortsHow To: Update A Single Package In UbuntuHow To: Use sudo Without A PasswordLet’s Password Protect A FileLet’s Shred A PartitionLet’s Use rkhunter To Look For RootkitsMake Passwords In The Linux TerminalMore Ways To Generate Strong Passwords In LinuxPrevent Brute-Force SSH Attacks With fail2banPrevent SSH Root LoginSet Individual Flatpaks Permissions With FlatsealShow Failed SSH Login AttemptsUse visudo To Edit The sudoers FileServerGuest Article: Kickstart Vol. IHow To: Disable Sleep And Hibernation on Ubuntu ServerHow To: Start A Quick Python ServerInstall And Secure MariaDB In UbuntuMake wget Use IPv4 or IPv6Stop People From Viewing Files In A Directory With .htaccessSoftware‘sudo apt remove’ vs ‘sudo apt purge’A Bit About The Finger Command:And Still Another Way To Find Files By ExtensionAnother Way To Locate Files By ExtensionAutomate Updates In Linux MintCreate A New User With SUDO Privileges In UbuntuCustomize Your GNOME Desktop With GNOME-Tweak-Tool In UbuntuDealing With “Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock”Dealing With Google Chrome Crashes, Freezes And Other AnomaliesDisable A PPA The Hard WayDisable Ubuntu SnapsDisable Window Grouping In LubuntuEnable PPAs In Elementary OSExtract Files From .DEB FilesExtract Multi-Part rar Files In UbuntuExtract Text From Multiple File TypesFind A Command’s BinaryFind Out If A Package Is Installed In DebianGenerate A Process TreeGet Some System Information With ArcheyHow To Install Krita In UbuntuHow To: Add A PPA To UbuntuHow To: Add Ubuntu’s Default RepositoriesHow To: Clear The apt CacheHow To: Completely Remove Software In UbuntuHow To: Find Out Which Kernel Version You’re UsingHow To: Find Out Which Window Manager You’re UsingHow To: Install .DEB Files In UbuntuHow To: Install The Regular “non-Snap” Version of Chrome Browser In UbuntuHow To: Kill Processes By Their PID (Process ID)How To: Make Google Chrome Use Less RAM (And Other Browsers)How To: Make Google Chrome Use Less RAM (UPDATED)How To: Open FeatherPad At A Specific LineHow To: Quickly Restart The Cinnamon Desktop EnvironmentHow To: Remove A PDF PasswordHow To: Use An Older Version Of A Google Chrome ExtensionInstall A .deb Package In The TerminalInstall A More Current Version Of LibreOffice In Linux MintInstall Brave Browser In FedoraInstall Flatpaks In LubuntuInstall Python’s PIP Part OneInstall Python’s PIP Part TwoInstall The Full Version of Vim In UbuntuInstall The Snap Version of ChromiumInstalling Applications With DPKGInstalling Flatpaks In LinuxKeyboard Shortcuts to Browser BookmarksLet’s Decompress A File (tar.gz) In The TerminalLet’s Install ‘gedit’ With All The Fixin’s In UbuntuLet’s Install Microsoft EdgeLet’s Install Nano (With Some Bonus Information)Let’s Learn About The htop System MonitorLet’s Make A Linux Installation DriveLet’s Mount An .iso In LubuntuLet’s Play Around With ‘apt-cache’Let’s Update Ubuntu In The TerminalList Installed Software In LubuntuMake Applications Start Faster in UbuntuManage Files In A tar ArchiveMonitor System Resources With “Resources”Monitor Your Linux System With NMONMy Three Favorite Text Editors, a Meaningless ListQuickly Reset Ubuntu’s Default RepositoriesReinstall A Package In UbuntuRemove The Firefox Title BarRemove Unused Kernels From RHELRestoring Google Search To Chromium When Installed In Linux MintShow Files Installed With A Package (Using ‘dpkg’)Show Installed Kernels In UbuntuShow Two Text Files Side By SideTurn PDF Into TextUnzip .gz Files With gunzipUnzip A .zip File In the Linux TerminalUpdate Flatpaks From The TerminalUpdate Python Packages (PIP)Upgrade Linux Mint In The TermanalUpgrade Ubuntu From The TerminalUse ‘apt-cache’ To Find An Application’s HomepageUse ‘apt’ To Download A Program And Its DependenciesUse an RPM on a DEB-based SystemUse Sublime Text On Ubuntu (And Derivatives)TipsAnother Way To Find The Binary For A Specific CommandBackup Optical Media To .isoChange Your Home DirectoryCount Word Frequency In A Text FileCreate A New UserDealing With Duplicates In Your Bash HistoryFind A File While Ignoring Case SensitivityFind And Remove Duplicate Files With rdfindHow To: Create A New UserHow To: Extract Files From An .isoHow To: Free Some Disk Space By Deleting Old LogsHow To: Prevent A File From Being Deleted*How To: Reload Your .bash_profileHow To: Show systemd ServicesInstall ShellCheck So That You Can Use It LocallyLet’s Count The Number Of Files In A DirectoryLet’s Have A Look At The free CommandLet’s Learn How To Change The Open File Limit In LinuxLet’s Play With Touch And TimeLet’s Root Around In The /proc DirectoryLet’s Take A Look At Logged In UsersList All The Groups In LinuxList The Files In A DirectoryRemove Files By ExtensionShort: Clear Linux Mint NotificationsShort: Show File Creation, Modification, and Access TimesShort: The Halt CommandUse Tab Autocomplete In The Linux TerminalView Some Logs In The TerminalWhen Did I Install LubuntuTutorialsAccess Recovery Mode On UbuntuCheck System Information With unameHow To: Delete A Swapfile In LinuxHow To: Find Out When A File Was CreatedHow To: Have A Proper Backup Of Your DataHow To: Make A Directory In LinuxHow To: Make A File ExecutableHow To: Show File Sizes When Listing Files In A DirectoryHow To: Show User Information In The Linux TerminalLet’s Install And Use ‘locate’Let’s Learn Some apt BasicsLet’s Make A Directory TreeLet’s Reboot Your Linux ComputerMonitor rsync’s ProgressSome Useful Ways To Use The Touch Command In LinuxTweaksDisable Bluetooth From Automatically Starting At BootFix The Application Menu For ShutterHow To: Adjust SwappinessMastering Efficiency: Unleashing the Power of Bash AliasesSubscribe to Newsletter!Get notified when new articles are published!We promise to never share your email!