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‘sudo apt remove’ vs ‘sudo apt purge’
‘vnStat’ A Tool For Monitoring Your Bandwidth Usage
A Bit About The Finger Command:
A Couple More Ways To Find Your Network Interfaces
A Couple Of Ways To Monitor Swap Usage
A Few Ways To Count CPU Processors Or Cores
A Few Ways to Determine Which Distro and Version You’re Using
A Few Ways To Visualize Disk Usage In Linux
A Little About The ‘echo’ Command
A Little About The ‘lscpu’ Command
A Little About The ‘lspci’ Command
A Little About The ‘lsusb’ Command.
A Quick Look At The Cat Command
A Quick Look At The Shutdown Command
Add A Message Of the Day (MOTD) To SSH
Another Way To Find A Website’s IP Address
Another Way To Find The Binary For A Specific Command
Another Way To Locate Files By Extension
Another Way To Show Mounted Filesystems
Another Way To View Attached Storage Devices
Automatically Enable Num Lock In Linux Mint
Automatically Logout Of Your Shell
Avoid Storing Commonly Used Commands In Your Bash History
Backup Optical Media To .iso
Benchmark Your GPU In Lubuntu
Better Network Diagnostics With MTR
Bonus Article: KGIII Rants A Little About Security
Bring Your Network Up Or Down (In The Terminal)
Change Snap Application Privileges In Lubuntu
Change The ‘sudo’ Password Timeout
Change Your DNS Servers To Google’s In Lubuntu
Change Your Home Directory
Change Your Hostname In Linux
Change Your Timezone In Linux
Check Disk Speed In The Terminal
Check To See If SELinux Is Working
Check Your Frames Per Second (FPS) From The Terminal
Check Your Linux Kernel Log For Errors With ‘dmesg’
Check Your SSH Server Configuration
Clear Cache, Buffer, And Swap Space
Clear The Terminal
Compress A File With WinRAR
Convert Disk Image Formats To .ISO
Count The Files In A Directory
Count The Number Of Running Processes Per User
Count Word Frequency In A Text File
Create A New User
Customize Your GNOME Desktop With GNOME-Tweak-Tool In Ubuntu
Dealing With Duplicates In Your Bash History
Dealing With Google Chrome Crashes, Freezes And Other Anomalies
Determine If You’re Using UEFI
Did You Know You Have A Calendar In The Terminal?
Disable Inactive SSH Sessions
Disable Printing And CUPS.
Disable Specific Terminal Commands
Disable The Caps Lock Key In Linux Mint
Disable WiFi From The Terminal
Disable Window Grouping In Lubuntu
Disallow Directory Listing (in the terminal)
Don’t Let Applications Close When The Terminal Is Closed
Easily Monitor Your Wireless Connection
Enable PPAs In Elementary OS
Enable x11 Forwarding With SSH (Remotely Use GUI Applications)
Enable/Disable Your Network Interface
Extract Files From .DEB Files
Finally, an Answer to What is The Best Linux Distro?
Find A Command’s Binary
Find A File While Ignoring Case Sensitivity
Find A Program’s PID (Process Identification)
Find An Application’s Process ID (PID)
Find And Remove Duplicate Files With fdupes
Find And Remove Duplicate Files With rdfind
Find Files Created On A Specific Date
Find Files Modified On A Specific Day
Find Files Owned By A Specific User
Find Out If A Package Is Installed In Debian
Find Out What A File Is
Find Out Which Display-Manager You’re Using
Find Out Which Shell You’re Using
Find Recently Modified Files
Find The Boot Processes That Slow You Down
Find The Last Filesystem Check
Find Your Last Boot Time In Linux
Find Your Linux System’s Timezone
Find Your Network Interface Name
Find Your Username In Linux
Fix Terminal Command Mistakes
Gather Storage Disk Information With ‘smartctl’
Generate A Process Tree
Generate Random Numbers
Geolocate A Website
Get Hardware Info With ‘dmidecode’
Get Some System Information With Archey
Graphically Examine Hardware Info With HardInfo
Guest Article: Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSIs)
hardinfo Has Been Rebooted As hardinfo2
Has Your Email/Phone (Personal Information) Been Involved In A Data Breach?
How About A Brief Overview Of The Cat Command?
How do I ‘Boot to USB’? (Or CD/DVD, if Such is Available)
How To Install Krita In Ubuntu
How To Tell If You’re Using Wayland Or X11
How To: Show An SSH Banner
How To: (More or Less) Learn if Your Hardware Will Work With Linux
How To: Access Tor While Using T-Mobile
How To: Add A New Line With CURL
How To: Add A PPA To Ubuntu
How To: Add A User To A Group
How To: Ask A Good Support Question
How To: Change DNS Servers
How To: Change The Port SSH Uses
How To: Change Ubuntu Into Lubuntu
How To: Change Your Password In The Terminal
How To: Check A Disk For Errors
How To: Check CPU Temps With lm_sensors
How To: Check Disk Usage With ‘df’
How To: Check For Bad Sectors On Your Disks
How To: Clear Swap
How To: Clear The Terminal Screen
How To: Completely Remove Software In Ubuntu
How To: Compress And Decompress .bz2 Files
How To: Count Letters, Words, and Lines
How To: Create A New User
How To: Create Custom Welcome Message In Your Terminal
How To: Determine Your Desktop Environment
How To: Disable CPU Cores
How To: Disable Sleep And Hibernation on Ubuntu Server
How To: Disable The Caps Lock Key
How To: Display System Information With screenFetch
How To: Display Your Fortune In The Terminal
How To: Encrypt A USB Drive
How To: Extract An .rar File
How To: Extract Files From An .iso
How To: Find A Site’s Nameservers
How To: Find A Website’s IP Address
How To: Find Files Over A Certain Size
How To: Find Files Owned By A Specific User
How To: Find Large Files Using ‘ncdu’
How To: Find Linux News
How To: Find Multiple Filenames By Extension
How To: Find Out Which Kernel Version You’re Using
How To: Find Out Which Window Manager You’re Using
How To: Find The File System Type
How To: Find The RAM Total In The Terminal
How To: Find Your CPU Information
How To: Find Your Man Pages’ Location On Disk
How To: Find Your Present Working Directory
How To: Find Your Uptime In Linux
How To: Free Some Disk Space By Deleting Old Logs
How To: Generate a List of Installed Applications in Linux
How To: Generate Sufficiently Complex Passwords In The Terminal
How To: Get CDROM/DVD Information From The Linux Terminal
How To: Go To A Specific Line In Nano
How To: Graphically Check Your Logs For Errors With ‘KSystemLog’
How To: Hide The Output From wget
How To: Install .DEB Files In Ubuntu
How To: Install Eclipse On Ubuntu 20.04
How To: Install Proprietary Drivers In Ubuntu
How To: Kill A User Session
How To: Kill Processes By Their PID (Process ID)
How To: List All Users In Linux
How To: List Open Files
How To: List USB Devices
How To: Lock Out A User Account
How To: Make A Linux Install USB
How To: Make Google Chrome Use Less RAM (UPDATED)
How To: Mount An .iso In Linux
How To: Not Save A Command To Bash History
How To: Open FeatherPad At A Specific Line
How To: Prevent A File From Being Deleted*
How To: Properly Delete a User’s Account
How To: Protect a file or directory from being deleted or changed by root
How To: Quickly Restart The Cinnamon Desktop Environment
How To: Reload Your .bash_profile
How To: Remove A Package With YUM
How To: Remove A PDF Password
How To: Restart SSH
How To: Restart TeamViewer From The Terminal
How To: Return To The Previous Working Directory In The Terminal
How To: Sanitize Exif Data From Your Digital Images For Privacy Sake
How To: Search For Files By Name
How To: Search With apt
How To: Show All Environment Variables
How To: Show Hidden Files And Folders
How To: Show systemd Services
How To: Show Your Hard Drive Specifications In The Terminal
How To: Show Your Network Interfaces
How To: Sort Text Alphabetically
How To: Stop, Pause, and Resume Processes Running in Your Terminal
How To: Tell If You Are You Using UEFI or BIOS
How To: Terminate A Terminal Command
How To: Test Your Drive Speed In The Linux Terminal
How To: Unzip All The Files In A Directory
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 sudo Without A Password
How To: Write Text To A File From The Terminal with “>” and “>>”
How To: Zip Files In Lubuntu
I’ll Try To Answer The Question, “Should I Use Linux?”
Increase The Volume Of Thunderbird Notifications
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 SSH to Remotely Control Your Linux Computers
Install The Full Version of Vim In Ubuntu
Is My System Capable of 32 or 64 Bit Linux?
Is Your Storage Drive An SSD Or An HDD?
It’s Time To Learn A Little About The ‘head’ Command
Keyboard Shortcuts to Browser Bookmarks
Kill Frozen Applications The Easy Way
Legitimate Reasons To Not Use Linux
Let’s Count The Number Of Files In A Directory
Let’s Count The Running Processes In Linux
Let’s Decompress A File (tar.gz) In The Terminal
Let’s Disable Your Webcam
Let’s Have A Look At The free Command
Let’s Install ‘gedit’ With All The Fixin’s In Ubuntu
Let’s Install INXI
Let’s Learn A Little About The ‘dir’ Command
Let’s Learn About The htop System Monitor
Let’s Learn How To Change The Open File Limit In Linux
Let’s Let AI Write An Article About ‘sed’
Let’s Make A Linux Installation Drive
Let’s Make A Symbolic Link
Let’s Mount An .iso In Lubuntu
Let’s Password Protect A File
Let’s Play Around With The ‘MV’ Command
Let’s Play Around With The Linux Shell.
Let’s Play With Touch And Time
Let’s Root Around In The /proc Directory
Let’s Take A Look At Logged In Users
Let’s Talk About Using dos2unix
Let’s Use ‘ls’ To Sort Files By Time
Let’s Zip A Directory In The Linux Terminal
Limit The Download Speed For ‘wget’
Linux Installation USB Media Using Windows
Linux Tips: A Comprehensive Guide for Optimizing Your System
List All The Groups In Linux
List Installed Software In Lubuntu
List The Files In A Directory
Locate Your Home Directory
macOS vs Linux: Comparative Analysis
Make ‘wget’ Resume From An Interrupted Download
Make Applications Start Faster in Ubuntu
Make Passwords In The Linux Terminal
Make Ubuntu Provide Feedback (Asterisks) When Typing Passwords In The Terminal
Manage Files In A tar Archive
Mastering The Power Of Linux Tee Command
Meta: Getting Indexed In Bing
Meta: The State Of Linux-Tips #19
Monitor Bandwidth With nload
Monitor Progress With RSYNC
Monitor TCP/UDP In Real Time
Monitor Wireless Link Quality
More Ways To Generate Strong Passwords In Linux
My Three Favorite Text Editors, a Meaningless List
Navigate To The Start Or End Of The Line (In The Terminal)
One Way To See CPU Information
Pause And Unpause Your Terminal
Ping With IPv4 Or IPv6
Prevent Application Updates With ‘APT-MARK’
Prevent Application Updates With ‘YUM-VERSIONLOCK’
Prevent SSH Root Login
Quickly Reset Ubuntu’s Default Repositories
Reboot From The Terminal
Remove Files By Extension
Remove The Firefox Title Bar
Remove Unused Kernels From RHEL
Rename A File Downloaded With ‘wget’
Repair Your Linux Boot Process With ‘Boot-Repair’
Rerun The Previous Terminal Command
Save A Web Page As Text
Search Your Man Pages With Apropos
Send A Message To Another Logged In User
Set A Timeout Value In cURL
Set Individual Flatpaks Permissions With Flatseal
Setting Up Coding Environments on Linux for Educational Use
Short: Automatically Add An Extension To Multiple Files In The Linux Terminal
Short: Clear Linux Mint Notifications
Short: Fix Typos With A Caret
Short: Show File Creation, Modification, and Access Times
Short: Show The Groups You Belong To
Short: The Halt Command
Show A Random Fortune When You Open Your Terminal
Show A Specific Networking Interface
Show Date And Time In The Terminal
Show Disk Usage With ‘ncdu’
Show Failed SSH Login Attempts
Show Files Installed With A Package (Using ‘dpkg’)
Show Installed Kernels In Ubuntu
Show Mounted Partitions
Show Running Processes
Show USB Devices In A GUI In Lubuntu
Show Your Filesystem In The Linux Terminal
Show Your USB Devices In The Linux Terminal
Some Fun With Formatting The Output From ‘ls’
Some Fun With Sorting The Output Of ‘ls’
Some Opinions (News?) About Purism.
Sort Files By Size (In The Terminal)
Stop People From Viewing Files In A Directory With .htaccess
Sync Mega.nz On Ubuntu 22.04
Take, Edit, And Upload Screenshots With Shutter
TeamViewer; My Most-Recent Favorite Alternative To VNC.
Temporarily Set A Static IP Address
Test Your Storage Drive’s Read Speed
The Differences Between APT and APT-GET.
The Meaning Of “Load Average” On Linux?
Time A Command To See How Long It Takes To Run
Today, We Have Fun In The Linux Terminal
Turn PDF Into Text
Update Flatpaks From The Terminal
Use ‘apt-cache’ To Find An Application’s Homepage
Use A GUI To Manage Debian’s Software Repositories
Use an RPM on a DEB-based System
Use Tab Autocomplete In The Linux Terminal
Use Your Hostname With SSH Instead Of Your IP Address – In Ubuntu
View Disk Usage
View Some Logs In The Terminal
Weather In The Terminal? We can do that!
What is my Hostname in Linux?
What You Need To Know About Linux’s Magic SysRq Key
When Did I Install Lubuntu
When Did I Last Reboot My Linux Box?
Who is, Simply whois
Yet Another Way To Check Filesystem Space Use
Yet Another Way To Find Files By Extension

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