When Linux was originally made public, it lacked many useful applications that the major competitor -Microsoft Windows was successfully running. Linux thus created a compatibility layer, called Wine, through which you can run the Windows applications on Linux itself. Initially,
Looking for Ubuntu version and system information on your machine can come in handy in a variety of scenarios such as downloading the relevant build of software according to your OS version. It also helps in knowing your OS version
Although Ubuntu users these days get to perform various operations through programs having high-end GUIs, there are multiple reasons to use the Linux command line called the Terminal. Through Terminal, you can access many powerful native Linux commands as well
Many Ubuntu users like to use their native language as the primary input language while operating their system. The Ubuntu Settings utility allows you to add your native language, or any other available language for that matter, as the keyboard
A display manager is the component of your Operating system responsible for launching your display server and the login session. This is the reason it is sometimes called the login manager. The layout of the screen that you see while
The Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system comes with a Trashcan icon on the Desktop, by default. If you want to remove this icon from the Desktop or want to add it in case you can’t find it, the easiest way to
We all have our own preferences when it comes to choosing a media player for our systems. Some prefer the VLC Media player, which is an open source and cross-platform software that acts as a media client for playing a
Ubuntu 17.10 and all later versions are equipped with a feature that displays all the mounted devices such as USBs and phones on your Ubuntu desktop. This functionality might be useful to some but may prove to be extra for
If you ever want to view hidden files and folders in the Ubuntu File Manager, you will notice that they are hidden by default. All you will be able to see are the files and folders that you have access
Whenever we want to access our favorite Ubuntu applications, we can add them to the Activities or Dock panel so that we can use them very frequently. It is very simple to add an application to the Activities panel; you