While wget is the most commonly used utility to download files, cURL and aria2 can be used to achieve the same results as well. cURL works both as a command line utility and a library and therefore you can use…
Because Linux is a multi-user system, several user profiles can be created on the same machine. This is a basic System Administration task, and you should also know how to add new users and into which group, and you should…
Firefox is one of the most widely used web browsers on Linux distributions. And because of its open-source nature, we can customize everything inside it, ranging from its Interface to blocking trackers/hardening the browser etc. Also read: LibreWolf vs Firefox…
Cinnamon Desktop Environment is one of the many lightweight DEs available for older hardware. It merely uses 650MB on a fresh boot, and the interface is easy to use for people migrating from macOS as well as Windows. It was…
MATE is a lightweight and simple Desktop Environment which is a fork of the GNOME 2 project. It is under active development while preserving the traditional ‘GNOME 2’ look and feel. It ships by default in many Linux distributions, such…
TeamViewer and AnyDesk are some of the most popular applications to access any desktop remotely, whether for troubleshooting or otherwise. However, you can also use the RustDesk application, which is the best alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk and an open source available on…
yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dlc with additional features and fixes of the now-inactive YouTube-dl tool, which was an open source command-line program to download videos and playlists from various websites, including YouTube. It is a really useful tool which…
There are numerous ways through which you can install any application on Linux. Package managers, Flatpaks and snaps are the most used package managers on distributions, but there is another way – AppImages. AppImages are standalone applications which do not…
I recently switched to the Cinnamon Desktop Environment from GNOME 42 because of excessive RAM usage. Now, I used the bulk rename feature of the Nautilus file manager very regularly to rename files via the GUI, but this feature was…
DuckDuckGo is one of the most private search engines available to use on any web browser. It does not track you in any manner (unless you use the DuckDuckGo browser) and gives you just the result of your query (unlike…