The Linux Compendium
Etcher, now named balenaEtcher, is a free and open-source application used for burning ISO and IMG files, and also zipped folders to USB drives and SD cards. This tool is available for Linux, Windows and macOS and that too with the same UI so that you get the same user experience everywhere. So, whenever you … Read more
Sometimes the system becomes corrupted after installing an application or driver. Whatever the cause, you will definitely want to get back to the state where your system worked perfectly. Restoring the system to its previous state can help you restore the system to a normal state. It works by creating a backup of a Ubuntu … Read more
Viewnior is an image viewer application, created to be simple, fast and elegant. Its minimalistic interface provides more screen space for your images. Among its features are: Fullscreen & Slideshow Rotate, flip, crop, save, delete images Animation support Browse only selected images Navigation window Set image as wallpaper (under GNOME, Fluxbox and LXDE) Simple interface … Read more
Encrypting data is very important to ensure data security, especially if you are using cloud storage. Almost all cloud storage services offer encryption services to their customers, but that’s not enough. It is also necessary to encrypt your data privately. EncFS (encrypted file system) is the best tool that can be used for this purpose. … Read more
Encrypting everything online including your emails has become necessary. Your confidential information such as login credentials, social security numbers, and bank account details becomes vulnerable when you sent them through emails. Email encryption involves masking the content to the email message to prevent them from being read by unauthorized persons. Sending encrypted emails in Linux … Read more
DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol), as you all know is a network protocol that automatically assigns IP addresses to clients machines in the network. It eliminates the tedious work of manually assigning IP address to every machine in a large network. In addition, it removes the conflict that occurs because of mistakenly assigning the same … Read more
The Budgie Desktop is one of the latest and modern Gnome-based desktop that gives a minimal and elegant desktop experience and is available for all major Linux distributions. It is designed in such a way that it utilizes fewer system resources. Budgie desktop has a straight forward app launcher that is known as Budgie menu … Read more
A Terminal-savvy person will find a way to perform any action while staying in the comfort zone of the command line. We mostly control system volumes through the Ubuntu GUI but there are certain situations where you want to do it from the command line. ALSA or the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture provides audio support … Read more
When you want to search and play YouTube videos, every time you will need to open a web browser, open YouTube website then search for videos. What if you have the option to search and play YouTube videos without the hassle of using a web browser? Gnome Shell includes a YouTube Search Provider extension that … Read more
In the quest of finding a desktop client for Instagram for Ubuntu, I tried installing many applications on my system. Most do not work, and a few would only let me watch my Instagram account and not let me upload photos. Ramme, an unofficial desktop client for Instagram, available on Github, finally offered all the … Read more