Software

‘sudo apt remove’ vs ‘sudo apt purge’
A Bit About The Finger Command:
A Few Ways to Determine Which Distro and Version You’re Using
A Few Ways To Visualize Disk Usage In Linux
Access Recovery Mode On Ubuntu
And Still Another Way To Find Files By Extension
Another Way To Find The Binary For A Specific Command
Another Way To Locate Files By Extension
Automate Updates In Linux Mint
Backup Optical Media To .iso
balenaEtcher: A Tool To Turn Linux .ISO Files Into Bootable USB Drives
Benchmark Your GPU In Lubuntu
Convert Disk Image Formats To .ISO
Create A New User With SUDO Privileges In Ubuntu
Customize Your GNOME Desktop With GNOME-Tweak-Tool In Ubuntu
Dealing With “Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock”
Dealing With Google Chrome Crashes, Freezes And Other Anomalies
Disable A PPA The Hard Way
Disable Ubuntu Snaps
Disable Window Grouping In Lubuntu
Don’t Let Applications Close When The Terminal Is Closed
Dooble Browser: A Review
Enable PPAs In Elementary OS
Extract Files From .DEB Files
Extract Multi-Part rar Files In Ubuntu
Finally, an Answer to What is The Best Linux Distro?
Find A Command’s Binary
Find An Application’s Process ID (PID)
Find And Remove Duplicate Files With fdupes
Find Out If A Package Is Installed In Debian
Find Out Which Display-Manager You’re Using
Fix The Application Menu For Shutter
Generate A Process Tree
Get Some Prettified CPU Information in Your Terminal With ‘CPUFETCH’
Get Some System Information With Archey
History: How Linux Got The Name “Linux”
How To Install Krita In Ubuntu
How To: Add A PPA To Ubuntu
How To: Add Ubuntu’s Default Repositories
How To: Cancel Your LastPass Account
How To: Clear The apt Cache
How To: Completely Remove Software In Ubuntu
How To: Compress And Decompress .bz2 Files
How To: Decompress tar.bz2 Files
How To: Extract An .rar File
How To: Extract Files From An .iso
How To: Find Out Which Kernel Version You’re Using
How To: Find Out Which Window Manager You’re Using
How To: Find Your Man Pages’ Location On Disk
How To: Generate a List of Installed Applications in Linux
How To: Graphically Check Your Logs For Errors With ‘KSystemLog’
How To: Install .DEB Files In Ubuntu
How To: Install Eclipse On Ubuntu 20.04
How To: Install PIP In Linux
How To: Install The Regular “non-Snap” Version of Chrome Browser In Ubuntu
How To: Install XnView MP On Ubuntu
How To: Kill Processes By Their PID (Process ID)
How To: List Cron Jobs
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 Line
How To: Quickly Restart The Cinnamon Desktop Environment
How To: Remove A Package With YUM
How To: Search With apt
How To: Show systemd Services
How To: Stop, Pause, and Resume Processes Running in Your Terminal
How To: Update A Single Package In Ubuntu
How To: Update From The Terminal In Fedora
How To: Update OpenSUSE Tumbleweed From The Terminal
How To: Update Ubuntu From The Terminal
How To: Use An Older Version Of A Google Chrome Extension
How To: Use Wayland in a Live Ubuntu Instance
How To: Zip Files In Lubuntu
Increase The Volume Of Thunderbird Notifications
Install A .deb Package In The Terminal
Install A More Current Version Of LibreOffice In Linux Mint
Install An FTP Server With VSFTPD
Install And Secure MariaDB In Ubuntu
Install Brave Browser In Fedora
Install Flatpaks In Lubuntu
Install Python’s PIP Part One
Install Python’s PIP Part Two
Install ShellCheck So That You Can Use It Locally
Install The Full Version of Vim In Ubuntu
Install The Snap Version of Chromium
Installing Applications With DPKG
It’s Time To Introduce You To The Terminator!
Keyboard Shortcuts to Browser Bookmarks
Kill Frozen Applications The Easy Way
Let’s Decompress A File (tar.gz) In The Terminal
Let’s Have a Limited Look at Linux’s cURL Application
Let’s Install ‘gedit’ With All The Fixin’s In Ubuntu
Let’s Install Microsoft Edge
Let’s Install Nano (With Some Bonus Information)
Let’s Install Ubuntu Restricted Extras
Let’s Learn How To Change The Default Terminal
Let’s Learn Some apt Basics
Let’s Make A Linux Installation Drive
Let’s Make The rm Command A Little Safer
Let’s Mount An .iso In Lubuntu
Let’s Play Around With ‘apt-cache’
Let’s Play Around With The Linux Shell.
Let’s Reboot Your Linux Computer
Let’s Reduce The Size Of .png Files
Let’s Update Ubuntu In The Terminal
Let’s Use rkhunter To Look For Rootkits
List Installed Software In Lubuntu
Make Applications Start Faster in Ubuntu
Manage Files In A tar Archive
Monitor Your Linux System With NMON
My Three Favorite Text Editors, a Meaningless List
Open ‘WebP’ Images In Linux Mint
Play H.264 Encoded Video On Ubuntu
Prevent Application Updates With ‘APT-MARK’
Prevent Application Updates With ‘YUM-VERSIONLOCK’
Quickly Reset Ubuntu’s Default Repositories
Reinstall A Package In Ubuntu
Remove Default Music Player In Elementary OS
Remove The Firefox Title Bar
Remove Unused Kernels From RHEL
Repair Your Linux Boot Process With ‘Boot-Repair’
Restoring Google Search To Chromium When Installed In Linux Mint
Review: MetaClean (Clean Exif/meta Data From Email Attachments Automatically)
Review: The SpaceFM File Manager For Linux
Review: Ubuntu Cleaner
Screenfetch vs. Neofetch, You Decide!
Search Your Man Pages With Apropos
Set Individual Flatpaks Permissions With Flatseal
Short: Clear Linux Mint Notifications
Show Files Installed With A Package (Using ‘dpkg’)
Show Installed Kernels In Ubuntu
Show Mounted Partitions
Show RAM Information With Ramfetch
Show Two Text Files Side By Side
Show USB Devices In A GUI In Lubuntu
Sync Mega.nz On Ubuntu 22.04
Take, Edit, And Upload Screenshots With Shutter
TeamViewer; My Most-Recent Favorite Alternative To VNC.
Terminology: View Pictures And Video Directly In Your Terminal
The “Linux” or “GNU/Linux” Debate
The Differences Between APT and APT-GET.
Turn PDF Into Text
Unzip .gz Files With gunzip
Unzip A .zip File In the Linux Terminal
Update Flatpaks From The Terminal
Upgrade Linux Mint In The Termanal
Upgrade Ubuntu From The Terminal
Use ‘apt-cache’ To Find An Application’s Homepage
Use ‘apt’ To Download A Program And Its Dependencies
Use A GUI To Manage Debian’s Software Repositories
Use an RPM on a DEB-based System
Use Sublime Text On Ubuntu (And Derivatives)
View Disk Usage
Visualize Your Network Traffic With ‘darkstat’
What Exactly Is A Linux Distro?
What it’s Like To Beta-test Linux, Specifically Lubuntu
When Did I Install Lubuntu
You Can, And Probably Should, Use VSCodium Instead Of VSCode

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