Do you love playing songs while working on your computer? Follow the steps in this tutorial to add media controls in the system tray on Ubuntu GNOME. Music is such an integral part of most of our lives. If you’re someone who’s working on their PC a lot through the day or you just like to …
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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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Windows may have many drawbacks, old outdated ways and some things that are just pure crap. But one of the most incredible, and perhaps also under-rated features is the Windows taskbar. It has been around since Windows 95. A single panel that contains all system controls, icons, currently running tasks, the start button and now …
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 mess and other things. While Linux generally handles that well, it has room to improve …
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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”, it controls user sessions and manages user authentication. Most of its job is done under the hood and the …
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’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 default, on Ubuntu GNOME, the top panel only shows the day of the week and the current time. It’s …
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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, I’d assume that’s true for most people. Yet, when the Firefox Quantum update came out I decided …
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 developers have been working on Budgie 11, meanwhile, the current latest version to exist is Budgie 10.4. It’s …
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