Windows users will be familiar with the concept of creating shortcuts to apps, files or folders. Similar functionality is available on Linux as well but it is often not enabled by default. But shortcuts can be really helpful. You can have your folder, file neatly tucked away in another drive or somewhere else, where it …
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Linux, like any other OS, has many flaws and one of them seem to be the backend of app installations. Installing apps is much easier than it is on Windows. most apps you’ll need will only take clicking on an install button once. Some with a single command that you can copy and paste from …
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The computer mouse is one of the best inventions in the field of computers. Even today with most devices allowing users to simply use the interface using their fingers, there’s still no replacement for the precision of a mouse. When you’re working with larger displays, a mouse is also more convenient. However, the most productive …
Deepin is the default desktop environment of the Deepin Linux distribution and has been created specifically for it. The distribution and also the desktop environment are projects of Chinese software company Deepin Ltd. Deepin is one of the most minimalistic desktop environments you’ll come across. It is also extremely slick and beautiful right out of …
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GRUB or Grand Unified Bootloader is a bootloader package developed to allow users to select from two or more operating systems installed on a single disk. GRUB is what makes dual booting a PC with Windows and a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu possible. You can always install two operating systems on a disk but …
If you blog regularly, you would know that resizing images is one of the best ways to get past image dimension and file size restrictions. A resized image is not always as good for the eyes though and can even look unreadable at times. If you read often on the internet, you may have also …
How popular would online gaming streams be if they were just pictures instead of a running movie? Probably not as popular as they are. We use a lot of screenshots to demonstrate something to you. Screenshots have become one of the most basic features that now every operating system is providing built-in. Windows computers have …
Most of us these days have multiple devices and unless you’re tightly caught up in Apple’s ecosystem, these devices pretty much refuse to work together as seamlessly as you would like. Efforts are being made to bridge this communication gap between devices. For instance, many mobile apps have been made for desktop computers so you …
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A bootable USB Drive is just any normal USB drive that a computer can boot from. If you’ve ever installed Windows from a CD or DVD, a bootable USB drive is similar. It does have a few advantages compared to discs. For instance, you can always overwrite a bootable flash drive and use it normally. …
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GParted is one of the most well known GUI tools in the Linux world and the most popular partition managing tool on Linux as well. It’s a free and open-source utility like every other widely used Linux app out there. GParted is written in C++ and being a tool with a GUI, it’s rather easy …
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