To install Alacritty on Ubuntu, one apt command is enough, but the version you get depends on your release. Alacritty is a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust. It runs just as well on Debian, Arch and Fedora. This guide covers apt, snap and a source build for any Linux distro. It then sets up
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Auto-cpufreq is an open-source tool that adjusts your CPU speed and power settings automatically on Linux. It lowers the clock on battery and lets the processor boost when you plug in or run heavy tasks. Unlike TLP or Powertop, it needs almost no tuning. This guide covers every install method, daemon setup, the config file,
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Figma on Ubuntu works best through Figma-Linux, an unofficial desktop app that wraps the Figma web editor in its own window. Figma has no official Linux client, so this community project fills the gap with a launcher icon, a separate window and local font support. This guide shows how to install Figma on Ubuntu with
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The banner command in Linux prints text in large letters made of the # character, which is a quick way to put a loud message on the terminal. People use it for login messages and script headers. The version on Debian and Ubuntu takes no options and prints only the first 10 characters of each
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Color picker Linux tools read the color under your cursor and give you a hex or RGB code to paste into CSS or a design file. Color Picker (the app once called Gcolor3) does this in a small GTK window. This guide installs it with apt, dnf, pacman, Flatpak or Snap. It then covers how
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Linux Mint Debian Edition looks like a second Cinnamon download on Mint’s page, but the base underneath is different. LMDE 7 “Gigi” runs on Debian 13 while Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” runs on Ubuntu 24.04. That choice changes your kernel, your driver setup and the packages you can install. Mint 27 is also planned for
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Solar2D on Linux still works in 2026 but the install method you pick decides what you can build. The Snap package is stuck on a 2022 build while the engine itself has reached release 2026.3731. That gap changes which features and export targets you get. This guide covers the Snap install, a source build with
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To count lines in a file on Linux, run wc -l filename. The command counts newline characters so a file whose last line has no trailing newline reports one fewer than the lines you can actually read. This guide covers wc, grep, awk, sed and Bash for the same job. It also handles blank lines,
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A Mattermost install on Linux starts with choosing a package format that matches your distro and your update habits. The desktop app is an Electron client (a web app wrapped in a native window) that talks to a Mattermost server. This guide covers apt, Snap, rpm, Flatpak, AppImage, tarball and pacman installs for Mattermost Desktop
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Linux battery health comes down to two numbers: what the pack can hold today and what it held when it was new. The kernel exposes both. Tools like UPower, acpi and inxi simply read them. This guide shows how to check them from the terminal. Divide today’s figure by the design figure and you get
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