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This year, why not bring a little snow to your desktop? Xsnow allows you to enjoy the sights and sounds of winter, from snowflakes falling gently on your screen to the beautiful, white blanket that covers everything around it.

The first time you get to know Linux and decide to learn Linux, there is a term that is foreign to your ears, namely “Linux Distro.”

When you want to use Linux, you have to choose the type of Linux, for example, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux, CentOS, and so on. This type of Linux is called a “Linux distro”.

There are hundreds of Linux distros published on the internet, all of which are different and made for their own purposes.

Arch2appimage (inspired by Arch-Deployer) is a free and open-source script or tool written in Python with the goal of converting Arch Linux packages either from the official Arch Linux Repositories or from the AUR into Appimage.

Throw your desktop environment and start using the terminal app for your daily routine. Sounds easy! Those who did this can easily relate to the pain of navigating to the different directories using the cd command.

In a few days or very soon, you might be working on your own shell script on Linux. At that time, you might be going with the traditional method by learning all the shell programming codes and applying them to your script. What if I say there is an amazing tool called Gum, that provides you glamorous functionality, or in simple words, the beautiful syntax for your shell script?

In order to make PipeWire the default audio service, you will need to make some changes to your system, which will enable and replace the PulseAudio server with PipeWire.

While working with a remote connection, it’s quite common to get into a situation where you are not able to interact with the remote system. And it is a frustrating moment when a remote SSH connection hangs after several minutes of unused connection, or perhaps even due to internet fluctuations. There might be many other reasons for the above cause, but it’s quite easy to kill an unresponsive SSH connection without killing the current shell.

There are lists of applications that I can’t afford to miss after setting up newly installed distributions, and one of them is EasyEffects, which enhances the audio quality to the next level. Without it, I don’t get the real vibe from the music.

Not able to access or open file because of white space in file name? Then you can remove the white space from the file name by following three different method .

MAC (Media Access Control Address) address is one of the most physical identifiers assigned to your network interface controller. Every device has its own unique mac address, which is set at manufacturing but can be changed using a few tools.

In computing, you might stumble upon an ISO image file. Have you ever wondered what the story is behind these files? How can you mount and unmount an ISO image in Linux?

Homebrew gained its popularity after being the default package manager for macOS. It’s heavily used by developers to install, remove, and manage packages from the command line. Also, you cannot deny the fact that Linux is leading the race by providing an amazing package manager. Apart from that, you will also get Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage to manage your packages from the command line.

If you are using Linux, then you know how to use the mkdir command to create a directory, and for files, we use the touch command, which creates an empty file in a second without using any command line editor. Both commands are handy to use, but how do I use this command to create multiple files and directories at once? Because it’s easy to create multiple files of 10 directories or files, but if someone asks you to create 100 files, you cannot easily do it until you find this article.

Spotify web player is good for listening to music from your web browser, but sometimes you may inadvertently exit the browser, which will interrupt your music experience. However, the desktop application is much better than the web version of Spotify, providing you access to control your music from the hotkeys and show the music notification on the tray. You can even sync your local music on the Spotify server or sync it on your other Android, iPhone, or laptop devices.

Ubuntu and other major Linux distributions automatically detect the system graphics card and install their open-source driver by default. To install a proprietary driver, you need to perform a few more steps.

Netflix is a popular video streaming platform, hosting more than 3,600+ movies and 1,800 TV shows. Currently, Netflix has the highest number of subscribers among its counterparts, Prime and Hulu. To watch the movies or shows on Netflix, you usually download an Android app, and Windows users have a standalone application on the Microsoft store. What about Linux users?

If you are a melophile like me and have multiple accounts on popular streaming platforms like Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music, then you might have experienced that there is not an easy way to install them on a Linux system. However, we have already written a detailed guide on how to install Spotify and Tidal on Linux. So, today the focus will be on Apple Music.

Losing passwords may create serious issues by completely locking down your database access.

Recently, I installed MySQL on my system and tried to change the password to improve security. While performing the steps, unintentionally, I misplaced my MySQL database password and lost access.

Linux provides you with a couple of commands to check the hardware information, including the graphics card. So, today you will learn what those commands are and how to use them to check the graphics card in your Linux system.

Whenever you hit the apt upgrade command on your Ubuntu or other Debian-based distribution, it will update the existing package and application to the latest release.

You might not have a problem updating the packages to their latest release. But let me remind you, “How many times did you break your packages after updating the system?”