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.
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?” – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 = […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
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. […]