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The LXDE desktop environment design is kind of outdated and bland. Luckily, you can easily customize it to your own liking. Here are 10 great themes for LXDE.

In Linux, you can restrict users from file access with a few commands. Here is how you can password protect folders and files in Linux using file ownership and groups as a password protection measure.

The world of Linux desktop themes is an ever-evolving one, with new ones replacing old favorites all the time. Here are some really excellent available GTK themes. Check them out!

One of the most important skills any Systemd newcomer can learn is how to manage their computer’s services. In this article we will discuss how to use and master Systemd from the Linux command line.

Linux has a wide variety of screenshot utilities. Unfortunately, none of them are capable of capturing your login screen. There is a way, though. Learn how to take a screenshot of your Linux login screen.

Timeshift is excellent for creating and scheduling regular backups of your Linux desktop system. Learn how to use Timeshift on Linux Mint.

Solarized turns your Linux terminals and applications into works of art with a simple 16-color palette. It can reduce eye strain associated with staring at a computer monitor for extended periods of time.

Abcde makes it easy to rip a CD. It grabs the raw data from your disk and encodes, tags, and makes comments on each track, all according to your preferences.

It is easy to dual boot Ubuntu on Mac. There might be some problems with the bootloader, but it can be overcome easily. Here are the steps to install and dual boot Ubuntu on Mac.

How exactly do you get Kodi running on a Pi? You can either install Kodi on your Raspberry Pi or install a Kodi-focused media center OS. Learn how to install Kodi on your Pi in this article.

Arch Linux developers created Netctl to make it easy to use Systemd-like commands to enable and disable network profiles you create. Here is how to use Netctl to create wired and wireless profiles and manipulate them to start manually or at boot.

Tiling window managers have several advantages over Gnome and KDE. If you’re looking for a bare-bones experience or a foil to your current desktop environment, find out how dwm can offer exactly that.

The use of groups in Linux forms the basis of access control on local systems and networks. Here we will discuss the handful of ways in which you can add users to groups and grant them access to files.

Skype and Linux don’t have the best history, but installing Skype on Ubuntu has never been easier. Learn how to get the most popular VOIP client running on your Ubuntu Linux PC.

One of the most important skills you can learn as a Linux user is how to use a manual page, or “man page.” Linux Man pages are fairly easy to tackle. This article will introduce you to those simple documents.

Regardless of the operating system you are using sometimes it will become bloated with plenty of useless files lying around. To make it worse, you have barely enough storage space left in your hard disk, even though you just upgraded it not long ago. While Ubuntu is easy to use, sometimes it will become bloated with plenty of useless files lying around. Here are eight ways to clean up your Ubuntu.

The default display server in Ubuntu 17.10 is Wayland instead of the usual Xorg. If you are still using apps that only run in X11, here’s how you can easily switch to Xorg from Wayland in Ubuntu 17.10

Linux offers a number of tools for examining your running processes. Here are some of the best terminal tools for you to better manage processes in Linux.

Recently there’s been a nasty spike of malware found in a large number of low-cost Android phones. This Triada malware is installed during the manufacturing process of the phone, and you can’t just uninstall it.

While there are many Inventive games that pushed the boundaries of what’s possible for puzzle games, there were no n-curses-based Rubik’s Cube for the Unix console, until now.