There are numerous media player applications available for you to use on Linux desktops such as MPV, Lollipop and the good old VLC media player. They’re easy to use and feature complete, although MPV does require you to learn some keyboard shortcuts. In this article, we will take a look at the open source Cavalier
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Apex Legends is blocked on Linux by EA’s anti-cheat system Update, October 2026: Bad news for all of us, EA blocked Linux and Steam Deck access to Apex Legends on October 31, 2024, so the steps below no longer get you into online matches. Treat the Gold rating mentioned below as historical, since it predates that
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Btrfs on Ubuntu gives you snapshots, checksums and transparent compression from a filesystem that already lives inside the Linux kernel. Ubuntu’s desktop installer still offers ext4 as its default, so you add btrfs yourself with the btrfs-progs package. This guide formats a spare disk and mounts it. Then it goes further with subvolumes, zstd compression,
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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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