‘apg’ is a command-line tool (very easy to use) that comes installed by default with Ubuntu that you can use…
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Learning how to use the command-line for copying files and folders (or backing up etc) in GNU/Linux sometimes can come…
Newer optical disc drives are a lot more quieter than the old ones, but they too can make some ‘unnecessary’…
In the recent past, Gnome desktop used to come with a package called ‘xscreensaver’. It’s a screensaver program that has…
If you’re having screen flickering issues while playing videos in Ubuntu, then the below steps might help you to fix…
It’s true that Ubuntu (or GNU/Linux in general) is getting better and better at managing power usage under different hardware…
In GNU/Linux, because almost all the major desktop environments come with some sort of a system monitor, killing or terminating…
Different file formats have different ‘characteristics’ embedded into them, so the operating system can use that information to distinguish them…
Whenever I save the recorded audio files into the ‘WAV’ format using the audio recording tool in Ubuntu, though most…
If you want to measure the actual performance of your computer, then a benchmarking utility is a must have. For…
I still prefer to memorize my ‘main’ passwords rather than storing them in software tools (I do store some but…
“Ddrescue” is command-line based (easy to use) data recover tool for the GNU/Linux platform, that lets you recover data from…