If You Are a Linux User, Make Your Next PC Powered By AMD While I was searching for a new on-budget laptop to buy, especially after my Lenovo Thinkpad x260 almost died, I did a lot of research specifically about what CPU & GPU vendors to choose, mainly because I use Linux only and I was worried about some rumors of compatibility and other issues. At the end […] July 15, 2019July 15, 2019
The Finest 5 Open Source Remote Desktop Software Remote desktop is an amazing feature that allows you to connect to, as its name implies, a remote operating system via a network connection so that you can control it from your current location. It’s a great feature because it has a lot of applications, such as helping your mom in fixing her broken system, […] June 21, 2019January 16, 2024
Enable Gedit Plugins To Turn It Into a Powerful Editor Gedit is the default text editor in the GNOME desktop environment. It has been the default text editor on major Linux distributions for more than a decade now. The editor is indeed very simple and beautiful: Gedit is great because: It supports code highlighting out-of-the-box for many programming languages. You can customize the color palettes […] June 16, 2019May 11, 2021
How to Install Matlab on Linux Matlab is one of the most famous and successful software projects ever. It’s the industry’s leading computing environment for all types of analytical/mathematical engineering works you may think of. It’s a fully functional programming language as well. I tend to think about it just like one of my professors told me many years ago: “What […] June 6, 2019October 13, 2021
Pomotroid is the Best Open Source Pomodoro Technique App Yet Pomodoro technique is a famous productivity method used by a lot of people to manage their time and divide it between work and breaks. The technique is very simple: Work for 25 minutes straight, but then take a 5 minutes break. This technique was first invented in the 1980s, and has been getting a lot […] May 12, 2019May 11, 2021
Linux Distributions Should Enhance how Sudo Asks for Passwords sudo is probably the most famous command in the Linux world. It allows ordinary users to run other commands or programs using the superuser privileges, which will allow them to do system-wide changes or modifications that they weren’t able to do with their ordinary user privileges. The Current Situation By default on all Linux distributions, […] April 22, 2019September 19, 2019
Create a Custom System Tray Indicator For Your Tasks on Linux System Tray icons are still considered to be an amazing functionality today. By just right-clicking on the icon, and then selecting which actions you would like to take, you may ease your life a lot and save many unnecessary clicks on daily basis. When talking about useful system tray icons, examples like Skype, Dropbox and […] March 2, 2019October 13, 2023
Install Android 8.1 Oreo on Linux To Run Apps & Games android x86 is a free and an open source project to port the android system made by Google from the ARM architecture to the x86 architecture, which allow users to run the android system on their desktop machines to enjoy all android functionalities + Apps & games. The android x86 project finished porting the android […] February 17, 2019December 16, 2021
Governments Are Spending Billions on Software They Can Get with Freedom How a Software is Owned In the proprietary software world, when software is released, and when users buy that software, they don’t usually buy the entire software, but instead, they buy what’s known as an end-user license agreement (EULA). This EULA gives them the right to do only some specific things with that software. Usually, […] February 14, 2019October 25, 2023
15 Firefox Addons To Consider Using Right Now Firefox is a hugging amazing browser. It’s fast, smooth and respects your privacy & security very much. Firefox also comes by default on most Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE. It also has the ability to add addons, which will allow you to boost your productivity a lot depending on your user setup. In this post, […] February 8, 2019March 15, 2022
Flameshot is an Amazing Screenshot Tool If you are someone who depends on saving screenshots a lot in your work, then you would find the default screenshoot tools on Linux (Such as GNOME Screenshot, Kscreenshot..) very limited to your own daily needs. Those tools do not come with any features other than just taking a screenshot of some parts of the […] February 1, 2019August 30, 2023
Slax is a Nifty Linux Distribution That Works from USB Slax is a portable Linux distribution that runs from USB, it aims to create a modular, modern and lightweight Linux distribution which can be carried anywhere in a USB stick. It’s also Debian-based, which allows you as a user to access tons of packages provided by Debian using the apt command. Slax 9.6 was released […] December 17, 2018December 16, 2021
Dark Days are Waiting the Open Internet There’s no argument that the Internet is one of the backbones of the modern world today. Yet, it seems that we are heading toward the end of the open Internet on the long run; An Internet that respects the user privacy & security, and protects him both from censorship and tracking seems to be long […] December 10, 2018April 16, 2019
Learn How to Get the Download Stats of any Ubuntu PPA Whether it was for research purposes, or just general curiosity to know which packages and repositories are more popular than the others on Ubuntu, you may would like to find the download statistics of a certain package from an Ubuntu PPA (personal package archive). Luckily, we have a good way for you to do this […] December 1, 2018December 23, 2018