Discover an eclectic mix of tutorials covering everything from ways to install neat apps, or enable new features, to workarounds for known issues, and configuring your Ubuntu system.
If you only started using Ubuntu sometime after 2012 then you have my apologies: this article won’t make a whole lot of sense. But if your roots with the distro reach back farther then the […]
A new GNOME Shell extension lets you turn any app in to a picture-in-picture window on Ubuntu. You’re probably familiar with picture-in-picture mode (PiP) in web browsers as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome both let […]
Do you want to mirror your iPhone screen on your Ubuntu desktop? There’s a free, open-source app in the Ubuntu repos that lets you do it. If you’re looking to mirror your iPhone or iPad […]
So your Bluetooth device is not showing a battery level in Ubuntu and you want to fix it. I was in the same situation. I bought a Majority Atlas sound bar from Amazon (as I […]
Just before Christmas I was introduced to a handy script that makes it easy to install the latest Enlightenment desktop release on Ubuntu 22.04. Emphasis on latest as (I’m sure you already know) you can […]
It’s time to deck the digital halls: Christmas is just a few days away! By now you’ll have put up your Xmas tree (which the cat’s since stripped), you’ll have wrapped the presents (impeccably well, […]
Upgrading to Ubuntu 23.10 from Ubuntu 23.04 is a breeze. If you’re fully up-to-date and have an active internet connection, you can upgrade directly. No need to download an ISO, flash it to a USB, […]
If you use Ubuntu on laptop and want to see battery percentage in the top panel, you can — in this guide I show you how. By default, Ubuntu only shows a battery icon in […]
KDE Plasma 5.27 is now available for users of Kubuntu 22.04 LTS to upgrade to — if they want to. Kubuntu 22.04 LTS ships with KDE Plasma 5.24. That is a solid release that works […]
When you double click on a DEB package in Ubuntu 23.10 an error appears to say: “there is no app installed for ‘Debian package’ files”. In this post I show you a couple of ways […]
Do you use Ubuntu with an NVIDIA graphics card? If so, you may want to install GreenWithEnvy. And in this post I show you how. GreenWithEnvy is a free, open-source utility for Linux designed exclusively […]
Here’s a tip for those of you who want to use a custom icon for a specific folder in Ubuntu. — And no, you don’t need to install a new icon set to do it. […]
