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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.

How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.10 from 24.04 LTS

With the latest release stacked with new features, you may be looking to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.10 from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS but wondering exactly how. “I just wait for Ubuntu to tell me, right?” – […]

13 October 2024
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How to Disable the ‘Recent’ Files Section in Nautilus

There’s one feature in the Nautilus file manager I use daily: the Recent files shortcut. One-click brings up a pseudo-folder showing all of my recently downloaded, modified, and newly created files, regardless of which folders […]

22 September 2024
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Check Laptop Battery Health from the Command Line

Do you want to check your battery health in Ubuntu from the command-line, without needing to install anything extra to do it? Well, you can. Most of using Ubuntu on a laptop will monitor our […]

26 August 2024
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How to Install Thunderbird DEB on Ubuntu 24.04 (Not Snap)

Do you want to try the latest Thunderbird 128 release but don’t want to use the snap package available in Ubuntu? Your first thought might be to run sudo apt install thunderbird to install the […]

16 August 2024

How to Enable Hardware Acceleration in Chromium Snap

Last May, Canonical announced that a hardware-accelerated version of the Chromium snap was available for testing on Intel (7th-gen and later) hardware. And that news was very welcome: hardware acceleration + the modern web = […]

28 July 2024
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How to Display eBook Thumbnails in Nautilus (Quick Tip)

I recently rediscovered my Amazon Kindle (a geriatric model from 2012, nothing fancy) and figured, as it still works, I’ll use it, and set about downloading freely available1 EPUBs of classic (and not-so-classic – I’m […]

19 July 2024

Microsoft 365 Account Issues in Ubuntu 24.04? Here’s a Fix

Of the (many) handy new features in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is the ability to access OneDrive files through the Nautilus file manager as a remote mount. This is made possible by the msgraph package, a […]

20 May 2024
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How to Set Up OneDrive Access in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Among the (many) new features in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is the ability to access Microsoft OneDrive files using the Nautilus file manager. Yup, no 3rd-party app downloads, no dodgy scripts to run, and no paid […]

25 April 2024

How to Bring Back Ubuntu’s Iconic Login Sound

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 […]

23 March 2024

Use Any App in Picture-in-Picture Mode on Ubuntu

A new GNOME Shell extension allows you turn any app in to a picture-in-picture window on the Ubuntu desktop. You’re probably familiar with picture-in-picture mode (PiP) in web browsers as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, […]

8 March 2024

How to Mirror Your iPhone/iPad on Ubuntu Desktop

You can mirror your iPhone screen on the Ubuntu desktop using a free, open-source app that’s available in the Ubuntu repos. Want to mirror your iPhone or iPad to Ubuntu? UxPlay is the easy way […]

2 March 2024
How to enable experimental Bluez features in Ubuntu for better Bluetooth support

How to Enable Bluez Experimental Features in Ubuntu

If your Bluetooth device is not reporting its battery level in Ubuntu and you want it to, there is a way to get it to appear. I know because I was in the same situation. […]

3 February 2024