Linux

Today we will be learning about Conky, which is used to create beautiful infographics of your system with the help of widgets. If you have ever browsed r/unixporn and looked at a similar desktop and wondered how you can recreate the same beautiful monitoring setup on your Linux or FreeBSD device, you are in for a […]

Owncloud vs Nextcloud are Open-source Self-hosted cloud storage services and are often considered the same, but they differ in services, features, pricing, and security. In this article, we will compare Owncloud vs Nextcloud in services, features, security, and pricing. There are other cloud services like Google Cloud, Dropbox, and Microsoft’s One Drive, but they don’t

Let’s learn about encrypting partitions with LUKS Disk encryption is a method of protecting confidential data and sensitive data on any storage device by converting the data into unreadable text (encrypting) such that only authorized users can decrypt and read the original data. This method of protecting data is much stronger than simply having a

Partitions and Filesystems are one of those terms that everyone familiar with computing has come across at some point in their lives. Whether it be in the context of creating a swap partition while installing a Linux system, getting confused between MBR and GPT or simply formatting your pen drive to FAT32 or NFTS. Today

Learn how to fix VLC is unable to open the MRL error. VLC or VideoLan Client is one of the most popular multimedia software on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and many other operating systems. It’s easy to see why since VLC offers a simple UI with a powerful backend that allows you to play local

Let’s learn formatting USB drives in Linux. USB drives are essential for any sort of work environment whether it be sharing files or installing new operating systems. A lot of time we might need to format a USB drive either to remove bad sectors or change the file system or you simply might want to

Emacs and Vim are two of the most popular text editors used by Linux Users. The fight between Emacs and Vim has been going on for more than 35 years now, even before the modern Vim editor existed. With dedicated worshipers and haters of each software, it can be pretty hard for a new user

In this article, we’ll learn how to unzip multiple files in Linux. Zip files are compressed files that provide an ideal way of transferring data across the internet. These files can be easily extracted using the command but what if you have to unzip thousands of files? Manually unzipping each file will take too much

In this article, We will be discussing the best Linux distributions for Plex Media Server. Linux has many distributions and Plex does not work the same on all distributions. What is Plex Media Server? Plex is one of the top media servers for streaming media content. It is a streaming and organization tool through which