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Up to its 18.04LTS release, it indeed worked as expected, but starting with 18.10 where the development team switched to using the Qt-based desktop LXQt instead of traditional LXDE, things started to break.

In a lot of discussions about which desktops are better on Linux, people seem to forget that Cinnamon exists, although it’s one of the best desktops out there that you may try. Here's why we think that in a long-detailed article.

Overclocking is the process of changing the default clock speed of a computer’s component (CPU, RAM..) into a higher one in order to get a better performance in the PC equipped with it. We’ll learn together how to install Ryzen Controller on Linux to do that task.

It's still possible to customize Firefox's user interface, thanks to the userChrome.css file. In today’s article, we’ll show you 4 ready, already-built Firefox themes that work with Firefox +68 browser.

Open source images are images that are licensed under one of the open source licenses, such as Creative Commons and other licenses. In today’s article, we’ll introduce 5 image hosting platforms that can provide you with open source and royalty-free images.

Today, you’ll be happy to know that there’s a rainy-mood-like extension for GNOME Shell, that allows you to listen to many similar sounds directly from your desktop. Its setup and usage is quite simple and easy. Its name is Focusli.

Windows operating system has been supporting such kind of displays natively for a very long time, but Linux distributions do lack a lot of things in this field. There are many draw backs, issues and other things to consider. This article will take you in a tour about that.

WoeUSB is an open source program that’s capable of burning Windows images (Windows 7, 8.1 and Windows 10) on Linux to USB sticks. It's very good in doing its job.

I bought a laptop powered by AMD. My experience with it on Linux has been wonderful so far. This is my story, and why I think that you should go with AMD for your next PC too.

Traditionally, there are many closed-source proprietary password managers, and there are those which are open source. In today’s article, we’ll see 9 open source password managers that you can use to secure yourself.

If you are someone who’s interested in creating 2D animation, whether as a hobby or part of your job, then you would be glad to know that there are many open source 2D animation software to use.

In general, people are using the proprietary TeamViewer program to do that. But there are many other open source alternatives to TeamViewer that you can use. Here are 5 of them.

Is Gedit nothing more than a text viewer with support for various themes/fonts? Well, not quite right actually. You can turn Gedit into a very advanced programming text editor with very simple steps.

Many people are still under the illusion that Matlab does not work on Linux, and that it currently only works on Windows. This belief is false, and Linux has been officially supported by Matlab for many years now.

Pomodoro technique is a famous productivity method used by a lot of people to manage their time and divide it between work and breaks. Pomotroid is an open source app that works on Linux/Windows/macOS to help you apply that technique.

sudo is probably the most famous command in the Linux world. It allows ordinary users to run other commands or programs using the superuser privileges, but it doesn't show you the password while you are typing it. This behavior should change by default.

ERP is an abbreviation for “Enterprise resource planning”. ERP systems are used in small, medium and large businesses to do the work that the company needs from day to day. Today, we would like to present 7 open source ERP systems that you can depend on.

System tray icons can actually be quite a lot more useful; By simply building one yourself for your own needs. In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to do that for you in very simple steps.

In the past, the speech-to-text technology was dominated by proprietary software and libraries; Open source alternatives didn’t exist or existed with extreme limitations and no community around. This is changing, today there are a lot of open source speech-to-text tools and libraries that you can use right now.

Here we list 5 of them.

The android x86 project finished porting the android 8.1 Oreo system to the x86 architecture few weeks ago. In this post, we’ll explain how to install it on your Linux system so that you can use your android apps and games any time you want.