Linux is many things but being the most user-friendly operating system is not one of them. I’ve often called out Windows for behaving like an OS from the 90s what with the way apps are installed or uninstalled the registry...
Tag - Linux Customization
How to Switch Display Manager on Ubuntu Linux
If you’ve never heard of display managers, a display manager is responsible for starting the display server and loading the Linux desktop after you type in your username and password. Also referred to as a “login manager”...
How to Edit & Repair GRUB Boot Menu
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...
Show Complete Date & Time in Ubuntu GNOME Top Panel
If you’re using any of the latest versions of Ubuntu, you’re most probably familiar with the new Ubuntu GNOME desktop. The popular Linux distro now has had the GNOME desktop as default since three iterations. By...
Remove Title Bar on Firefox for Linux
If you’re not a Mozilla Firefox user, you’re not a minority. It has been quite some time since any browser has really excited me enough to switch from Chrome. Considering the market share of all the desktop browsers...
How to Install & Uninstall Budgie Desktop on Ubuntu
Budgie is a homegrown desktop environment of the Solus project, based on GNOME 3. Due to its growing popularity in the Linux community, it even received an official Ubuntu favor that ships with Budgie desktop pre-installed. The...
How to Configure GRUB on Ubuntu
If you’re a Linux newbie you’re probably wondering what is GRUB? GRUB (GRUB2, more specifically) is the bootloader used by most Linux distros. Unlike the Windows bootloader that only detects Windows installations...
Get Desktop Widgets on Ubuntu 18.04 with Conky
In a nutshell, Conky is a graphical system monitor tool for Linux and BSD systems. From how it appears anywhere on the desktop according to the will and whim of the user, it is only logical to compare it to widgets from Android...