Getting you up to speed!
In today’s article, we’re going to learn how to change Snap application privileges in Lubuntu. With Ubuntu, it’s a bit more straightforward. In Lubuntu, you have to dig around a little bit. Don’t worry, ‘snot hard – it’s just not all that intuitive. Snap applications come with their own privileges. This is useful because sometimes … Continue reading “Change Snap Application Privileges In Lubuntu”
This article will show you how to change your DNS servers from your default servers to the DNS servers run by Google, specifically while you’re using Lubuntu. If you’re not using Lubuntu, the process is likely fairly similar. Either way, it should be a nice and fun article, and we’ll even do it in the … Continue reading “Change Your DNS Servers To Google’s In Lubuntu”
Today’s article is going to teach you how to change Ubuntu into Lubuntu. Why? Because you can! Because you might want to try a different desktop environment, or because you’d like to have them both on one computer. It’s remarkably easy to change Ubuntu into Lubuntu – and, of course, would work with other official … Continue reading “How To: Change Ubuntu Into Lubuntu”
It goes without saying that I’m a pretty big Lubuntu fan. The reason it goes without saying is because (as anyone that knows me knows) I have said it plenty of times already! This ‘award’, becoming an official Lubuntu Member, is recognition for past activity in the Linux (specifically in the Lubuntu/Ubuntu sphere) community. My … Continue reading “Meta: I’m Now An Official Lubuntu (And Ubuntu) Member!”
You may not think so, but everyone can meaningfully help their favorite distro. Someone has to beta-test Linux, and most everyone can do so. Here’s one way that you can help. You don’t have to be a programmer, being able to code isn’t mandatory. It’s not even a requirement that you have spare hardware to … Continue reading “What it’s Like To Beta-test Linux, Specifically Lubuntu”
Today’s article is going to be something my regular readers wouldn’t expect as we discuss legitimate reasons to not use Linux. Like it or not, people have reasons not to use Linux. I’ll cover some of them that I think are more legitimate than other reasons. I think I’ll link to these first: Top 10 … Continue reading “Legitimate Reasons To Not Use Linux”
Today we’re going to have a pretty easy article where you’ll learn about installing Flatpaks in Linux. I’m writing this article because I want to write another article. Once I write this article, I can write that article! I did write a previous article about installing Flatpaks in Lubuntu. I want this to cover more … Continue reading “Installing Flatpaks In Linux”
Today we will have a fairly simple exercise as we’re going to just use a Python application to extract text from multiple file types. This is a pretty standard operation but will require some preparation. Fortunately, I’m ahead of the game! You’re good to go if you follow along on the site and have already … Continue reading “Extract Text From Multiple File Types”
This is not something everyone is interested in doing but you might as well learn how to disable CPU cores. This is something that’s easily done and easily reversed, so you might as well have an article on the subject. Why would you do this? Well, maybe you have a low-power project and want to … Continue reading “How To: Disable CPU Cores”
We’ve covered this topic before, but I want to show you another way that you can show mounted filesystems. As previously covered, you have multiple filesystems mounted at any one time. So, let’s examine them, shall we? If you use Linux, you use multiple filesystems. There are real and virtual filesystems created and used by … Continue reading “Another Way To Show Mounted Filesystems”
