The remote desktop feature allows you to connect to a remote computer or virtual machine over a network. This is quite convenient, but until recently, Ubuntu had some issues with this. The built-in remote desktop program didn’t support creating new sessions, and most third-party programs … Read more
If you have an Nvidia graphics card installed on your computer, it’s better to use official drivers. The quality of the open-source Nouveau driver has greatly improved over the years and is almost on par with the proprietary one in terms of performance, but you … Read more
The GNOME desktop environment already looks quite decent and has virtually everything needed for comfortable work. However, with extensions, you can make it even better. You can more precisely configure the position of the panel, colors, and behavior of the environment. In this article, I … Read more
Snap and Flatpak are software deployment and package management systems for Linux, that become very popular recent time. Both look pretty similar at the first glance. Both have some level of isolation, contain all dependencies of application, once packaged, application can be installed in any … Read more
In Windows, you can create shortcuts on your desktop to launch applications since the very first versions. A long time ago, Ubuntu and other distributions with GNOME had that ability too. However, after the GNOME 3 release, the desktop environment design was reworked, and all … Read more
If you have switched from Windows, you know, that you can press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open task manager and get information about CPU or memory usage or kill unwanted applications. There is no direct equivalent for Linux, but you can use some applications and command-line tools … Read more
The remote desktop feature allows you to connect and control your PC remotely. For example, you can connect to your work PC when you are home, or you can connect to a remote work station that is available only in your work network. In this … Read more
If you don’t turn on an “Administrator” switch when creating a user in Ubuntu, and then log in and try to run sudo, you will get an error: “user is not in the sudoers file this insident will be reported.” In this short tutorial we … Read more
In KDE, there is no issue configuring the hotkey you want to use for input switching. However, on the GNOME desktop, it is more complex. There the default keyboard shortcuts for switching layouts are Super+Space and Shift+Super+Space. The first switches to the next layout, and … Read more
In the previous article, I explained how to mount a Windows shared folder in Linux. There were certain issues due to the fact that Microsoft uses the WS-Discovery protocol, and Linux still poorly supports this protocol. However, if you need to mount a Samba shared … Read more