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How to Install and Setup OneDrive Client in Ubuntu 22.04

This is a step by step beginners guide shows how to install and setup OneDrive client in Ubuntu 22.04 to sync files between local machine and Microsoft cloud. OneDrive is a file hosting service by Microsoft. It so far does not have an official app for Linux, but there’s a popular free open-source client works […]

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Tell How Much Free Space Left in Ubuntu 22.04

When going to download or install something that takes much disk space, it’s better to first check if there’s enough free space left in your system. This is super easy to do the job in Ubuntu & other Linux. And, I’m going to show you how in both graphical and command line ways. Though the […]

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How to Install Kvantum to Theme Qt6/Qt5 Apps in Ubuntu

This simple tutorial shows how to install and use Kvantum theme engine to change themes for your Qt5 and Qt6 applications in Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 23.10. GNOME Desktop uses GTK toolkit for its applications and KDE/LxQt uses Qt toolkit instead. These apps work on each other desktop environment, but may NOT look native. To […]

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GIMP 2.99.18 Released as Last Dev for Next Major 3.0

GIMP image editor announced the new 2.99.18 development release today. It’s marked as the last dev release for the next major 3.0 version. The new release has a new welcome dialog, with Personalize tab to set your favorite theme, icon and font scaling, and select program language, Contribute tab with a few links for who […]

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Firefox 123 Released with New Report Tool, Search in Firefox View

Mozilla Firefox web browser version 123.0 now is available to download! In the new monthly release, Firefox View page now have “Search” function, allows to search a page from each tab of recent browsing, recent closed tabs, open tabs, tab from other devices, and history. Firefox 123.0 also added a new menu option to easily report […]

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How to Install New Gambas 3.19.0 in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04

Gambas released new 3.19.0 few days ago. Here’s the new features and how to to install guide for Ubuntu users! Gambas is a full-featured object-oriented language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. It’s made up of a compiler, interpreter, archiver, scripter, development environment, and many extension components, for easily developing command-line, GTK2/GTK3, Qt, […]

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How to Enable JPEG-XL (.jxl) Image Support in Ubuntu 22.04/20.04

Want to open (or export to) .jxl files? Here’s how to enable the image format support in Ubuntu and Debian. JPEG-XL (.jxl) is a royalty-free raster-graphics image format supports both lossy and lossless compression. It includes features such as animation, alpha channels, layers, thumbnails, and has better compression efficiency (60% improvement) comparing to JPEG. GNOME […]

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How to Disable Mobile Broadband Menu Option in GNOME

This simple tutorial shows how to get rid of the “Mobile Broadband” menu option from the upper right system status menu in GNOME Desktop. GNOME, the default desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation, has built-in support for mobile broadband. If your computer (usually laptop) has a built-in SIM card slot, then it will show you […]

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How to Get Classic GNOME 2 Session in Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04

This simple tutorial shows how to install and enable the Classic Gnome 2 style desktop session in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 24.04. Though the title said for Ubuntu, this tutorial also works in Debian 12 & 11. Fedora, Arch, and their based systems also have corresponding packages for the similar job. As far as I […]

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How to Rotate Images in Ubuntu 22.04

This is a beginner’s guide shows you how to rotate your images using either a Linux command or built-in apps such as file manager and image viewer. Option 1: Rotate an image using built-in image viewer If you want to change the orientation for only a few photo images, then the built-in image view is […]

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Top New Features in GNOME 46, the Desktop for Ubuntu 24.04

GNOME 46 reached UI, ABI/API, and feature freeze stage today. Let’s see the top new features in this popular desktop environment. GNOME 46 will be the default desktop environment for Fedora 40 Workstation, Ubuntu 24.04, and optional in Arch, Manjaro, etc Linux. It continues polish the desktop appearance by redesigning the improving the core app […]

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How to Install GO (golang 1.22) in Ubuntu 22.04

Go programming language announced the new 1.22 release this Tuesday! Here’s the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu & other Linux. What’s New in Go 1.22: The variables declared by a “for” loop were created once and updated by each iteration. In new 1.22 release, each iteration of the loop creates new […]

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Enable Fingerprint Reader in Ubuntu 22.04 for ThinkPad T480s

This is a step by step guide shows how to enable fingerprint reader support for Lenovo ThinkPad T480/T480s, X1 Carbon 6th gen, X1 Yoga 3rd gen, X280, etc with 06cb:009a device in Ubuntu 22.04. Ubuntu has fingerprint reader support out-of-the-box using libfprint, and provides option to enable fingerprint login in Users settings page. However, the […]

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How to Set Battery Charge Limit in Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04

This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to configure your Ubuntu laptop to limit the maximum battery charge level. For those who keep laptop plugged in for long term, it’s better to set battery charge limit to reduce the battery wear by constantly trickle charging. Linux Kernel supports battery charge threshold, and […]

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New PPA to Install .NET 8 in old Ubuntu 18.04 & Ubuntu 16.04

For .NET developers, the latest .NET 8 can be installed on old Ubuntu 18.04 and/or Ubuntu 16.04 LTS easily through PPA. .NET 8 was released few months ago in November, 2023. It’s a new LTS release with 3 years support, and features new code generator “Dynamic Profile-Guided Optimization” (PGO), AVX-512 instruction set, out-of-the-box AI features, […]

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How to Install and Use Incus Container in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

This simple tutorial shows how to install and use Incus container in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Incus is a free open-source system container and virtual machine manager developed by Linux Containers community. It supports images for a large number of Linux distributions. With it, you can manage your containers and VMs either with […]

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How to Install Python 3.13 (Dev) in Ubuntu 22.04 / 20.04

This simple tutorial shows how to install Python 3.13, which is still in development stage, in Ubuntu 22.04, or Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Python 3.13 so far is in alpha development stage. For testing or software developing purpose, you can install it in Ubuntu either from PPA or by building from source tarball. Features in Python […]

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How to Install Floorp Web Browser in Ubuntu (Step by Step)

This is a step by step beginners guide shows how to install the Floorp web browser in Ubuntu Desktop. Floorp is a new free open-source web browser forked from Firefox. It’s promoted as “the most Advanced and Fastest Firefox derivative”. The browser is based on Firefox ESR. It’s updated every 4 weeks, with security updates […]

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How to Install Pale Moon with its Linux Tarball (Beginners Guide)

This is a step by step beginners guide shows how to install Pale Moon web browser through its official Linux tarball in Ubuntu. Pale Moon is a free open-source web browser that was started as a fork of Firefox, but now completely diverged from Firefox. It retains the highly customizable user interface, continues to support […]

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Get Firefox VA-API Hardware Acceleration working on NVIDIA GPU

For Ubuntu machine with NVIDIA graphics card, here’s how to implement hardware acceleration for video playback in Firefox web browser. Firefox so far only supports VA-API for GPU decoding to offload CPU and save power. Both Intel and AMD GPUs support VA-API. However, NVIDIA so far supports the api only through the open-source Nouveau driver. […]

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