This simple tutorial shows how to install and setup the rEFInd boot manager in your Ubuntu 22.04, and/or Ubuntu 23.10 machine. Most Linux uses Grub2 as default boot-loader. Though, there’s a good alternative called rEFInd. It’s a free open-source boot ...

  HandBrake, the popular free open-source video transcoder, released a new update for the new 1.7 series yesterday. The new release fixed encoding issue for AMD VCN, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, NVIDIA NVENC, and VP9 encoders, which could cause the creation of ...

Enlightenment window manager announced new 0.26.0 release few days ago. The new release added some new features, including DDC option to backlight control of external monitors, bigger task previews, and watermark to wl mode to indicate E is in experimental ...

  Stellarium, the free open-source planetarium software, announced new 23.4 release few days ago. The new release added experimental support for new plugin: Lens Distortion Estimator, and new sky culture: Tibetan Lunar Mansions. With new release, user can now change ...

This simple tutorial shows how to install Chatterino, a Twitch Chat app with enhanced features, in Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04, 23.10 via PPA. Chatterino is a free and open-source chat app for Twitch.tv. With it, you can connect as many channels ...

  Darkable, the popular photography app and raw developer, released new major 4.6.0 version a day ago! The new release introduced auto-save feature for editing history. By default, it save changes every 10 seconds. User can go to ‘Preferences -> ...

This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install iTunes in Ubuntu 22.04 & 23.10. Windows app is easy to install in Ubuntu & other Linux, thanks to Wine. However, it’s not so easy for beginners to ...

Got local music files in your Ubuntu PC/laptop? Here’s how to transfer them to your iPhone. It’s NOT hard to install iTunes in Ubuntu using Wine in today’s Linux. However, iTunes running in wine does not detect my iPhone, at ...

  Firefox web browser announced the new monthly 121.0 release this Tuesday! For Linux, the release finally default to Wayland session when available, meaning for Ubuntu 22.04 and higher (exclude Snap), Fedora Workstation, and other Linux with recent GNOME Desktop. ...

This simple tutorial shows how to install Firefox Beta, Firefox Developer Edition, or Firefox Nightly in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, using the new official repository. Mozilla announced new official apt repository for Debian and Ubuntu users few months ago, which ...

  For people who are hard-of-hearing, and/or for better understanding audio, here’s a live captions app that provides real-time automatic subtitles on Linux desktop. The app displays a wide flat window on desktop, showing real-time (may have few hundred milliseconds ...

  This simple tutorial shows how to edit .desktop files, the config files for your apps shown in start menu (app launcher), in Linux via single command. In most Linux, the app icons (and their names) you see in dock ...

  This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Android Studio 2023.1.1 or 2023.2.1 in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.10. Android Studio, the official IDE for Android app development, is easy to install in Ubuntu in different ways! They include ...

  Krita, the free open-source digital painting software, released a new bug-fixes release for the 5.2 release series few days ago. The new Krita 5.2.2 has various fixes to the Snap build. Ubuntu users can finally easily to install it ...

  This is beginner’s guide shows how to install and setup Waydroid to run full Android system as well as Android applications in Ubuntu. I’ve written about this by using Anbox, which is however no longer in active development. This ...