Month: March 2021

Dual Booting Ubuntu and Windows With a SSD and a HDD

Dual booting Ubuntu and Windows is not that complicated and I have covered it in detailed tutorial in the past. Recently, I also wrote about dual booting on a Bitlocker encrypted Windows system. And yet here I am talking about it again. Why? Because the scenario …

How to Update openSUSE Linux System

I have been an Ubuntu user for as long as I remember. I distrohopped a little but keep on coming back to Ubuntu. But recently, I have started using openSUSE to try something non-Debian. As I keep exploring openSUSE, I keep on stumbling upon things that …

Meet SysMonTask: A Windows Task Manager Lookalike for Linux

Thanks to the desktop environments, almost all Linux distributions come with a task manager application. In addition to that, there are several other system monitoring applications for Linux that have additional features. But recently I came across a task manager created for Linux that looks like …

How to Turn Off Automatic Brightness on Ubuntu [Quick Tip]

Some new laptops come with built-in integrated light sensor. Operating systems use this sensor to measure the ambient light conditions and change the screen brightness automatically. This helps in reducing eye strain. You can see that this is a useful feature. But not everyone might like …

What is GNU/Linux Copypasta?

As a Linux user, you might have come across a long text that starts with “I’d like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux”. It makes some people confused about what is Linux and what is GNU/Linux. …

Meet Plots: A Mathematical Graph Plotting App for Linux Desktop

Plots is a graph plotting application that makes it easy to visualize mathematical formulae. You can use it for trigonometric, hyperbolic, exponential and logarithmic functions along with arbitrary sums and products. Plot mathematical graphs with Plots on Linux Plots is a simple application inspired by graph …