For those hate Snap but prefer Flatpak, there’s now a script to automatically remove all the snap apps installed on your system, and install them back as Flatpak in Debian and Ubuntu. It’s Unsnap, a free and open-source script written by Alan Pope and some other contributors. The man was an employee of Canonical (the company […]
Read MoreThis simple tutorial shows how to install the DVD authoring tool, DVDStyler 3.3 Beta, in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 23.04. DVDStyler is a free software for creating professional-looking DVDs. It provides many built-in buttons, templates, and file browser to make easy to burn DVDs. I was maintaining a PPA with DVDStyler package for Ubuntu users, […]
Read MoreThis simple tutorial is going to introduce the new Ubuntu PPA for installing VLC media player as native .deb package format. VLC is easy to install in Ubuntu through either Snap (available in Ubuntu Software) or Flatpak. If you don’t like applications run in sandbox, then a third-party PPA can be a good choice besides […]
Read MoreLinux Kernel 6.4 was released a few days ago. Ubuntu users can now install it from Kernel Mainline PPA. Linux Kernel 6.4 features initial Apple M2 processors support, Realtek rtl8710bu/rtl8188gu, rtl8822bs, rtl8822cs and rtl8821cs WiFi hardware support, Turtle Beach and Qanba gaming controller support, and many Kye/Genius drawing tablets, such as EasyPen M406 / M506 […]
Read MoreLinus Torvalds announced the release of Linux Kernel 6.4 few days ago on Sunday. He wrote: Hmm. Final week of 6.4 is done, and we’ve mainly got some netfilter fixes, some mm reverts, and a few tracing updates. There’s random small changes elsewhere: the usual architecture noise, a number of selftest updates, some filesystem fixes […]
Read MoreFor users switching from macOS, there’s an extension can replace top-left ‘Activities’ with ‘Apple Menu’ in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 23.04. It’s ‘Maccy Menu’, which adds a menu in top-left with following options: About This PC, System Preferences (Settings), App Store (Ubuntu Software / Gnome Software) Recent Items (Recent Files) Force Quit (xkill) Sleep Restart […]
Read MoreDarktable got a new major release few days ago! Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 23.04 via PPA. Darktable 4.4.0 is a big release with many new features. They include: Ability to define multiple automatically-applied presets against a single processing module. A global “right-click-and-drag” operation to allow image rotation to […]
Read MoreONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, the free and open-source offline use office suite, released new 7.4 version a few days ago. The new releases feature a “Plugin Manager“, allows to easily install external functions support, such as ChatGPT, YouTube, OCR, and more. User can of course submit its own plugin to the market place for other user […]
Read MoreThis simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Cinnamon Desktop 5.8 in Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 23.04 via PPA. The source of Cinnamon 5.8 was out a few days ago! It will be officially announced later in this month along with Linux Mint 21.2. Cinnamon 5.8 features built-in touchpad / touchscreen gestures support! There […]
Read MoreRunning Ubuntu on Desktop PC or laptop with external monitor? You can add a slider in top-right system menu to control the screen brightness. Unlike laptop’s built-in screen, most Linux today does not provide brightness control for external monitors. Fortunately, there’s a ddcutil utility can do the job via ddc/ci protocol, which is supported in […]
Read MoreI got a HP printer that is working good with my Ubuntu laptop. But, in new Ubuntu desktop PC, it does nothing when trying to print anything. The printer is automatically detected and added in the settings page, and shown in the Document Viewer’s Print dialog. But, it does nothing when clicking ‘Print’ button. If […]
Read MoreAudacity audio editor released version 3.3.3 a day ago. The new release fixed the Filter Curve EQ and Graphic EQ scaling when resizing the dialog. Previously, resizing it only cause large blank area while leaving EQ unchanged. The release also fixed audio.com upload flow. It added track title field which is required for upload, and […]
Read MoreHPLIP, the HP developed Linux driver for HP printers and Scanners, released version 3.23.5 this Monday! The new release features many new HP devices support. They are: HP Color LaserJet Enterprise 6700dn / 6700 HP Color LaserJet Enterprise 6701dn / 6701 HP Color LaserJet Enterprise X654dn / X654 HP Color LaserJet Enterprise X65455dn / X65465dn […]
Read MoreThe KeePass password manager released version 2.54 few days ago. Here are the new features and PPA repository for all current Ubuntu releases. KeePass 2.54 now uses the enforced configuration file for the triggers, global URL overrides, password generator profiles and a few more settings. See more about enforced configuration. As well, there’s now new […]
Read MoreThe free and open-source DJ mixing software, Mixxx, announced the beta version of the next major 2.4 release series a few days ago! The new Mixxx 2.4 added support for saving loops as hotcues, and native Apple Silicon support for better performance on M1, M2, etc., devices. The release also features explicit sync leader support, […]
Read MoreThe Bluefish text editor just got a new bug-fix release today! It’s Bluefish 2.2.14, that fixed crashes when deleting backup files on close, when closing some of the dialogs in flatpak app, and when the CSS language file was loaded on a 32-bit system. Furthermore, the release fixed zencoding functionality with python3, added option to […]
Read MoreFor Ubuntu 23.04, Fedora 38 and other Linux with GNOME 44, there’s now an extension allows to change display name of audio output devices from the top-right aggregation menu (aka Quick Settings). By default, the speakers and headphones in the sound output sub-menu is a bit too explicit, that are not very clear to understand. […]
Read MoreWant to let “Open in Terminal” context (right-click) menu option work for another terminal emulator? Here’s an extension to do the similar job for Nautilus. When right-clicking on either a folder or blank area in file manager, there’s an “Open in Terminal” menu option to launch system default terminal with that folder as working directory. […]
Read MoreThis simple tutorial shows how to install brave browser via the new apt source policy in Ubuntu 23.04 & 22.04. Due to security issue, Debian changed its policy for adding apt sources. Ubuntu is changing the rules too. Since Ubuntu 22.04, it uses more secure key files with digital signature for system repositories and PPAs. […]
Read MoreFor developers who want to prepare their project for the latest Python releases, here’s how to install Python 3.12 in all current Ubuntu releases. Python 3.12 now is in Beta development stage. It features more flexible f-string parsing, new type annotation syntax for generic classes, support for the Linux perf profiler, and many performance improvements, […]
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