Ubuntu works reasonably well out of the box, but a fresh installation still leaves plenty of room for improvement. A few tweaks, some essential software, and a handful of lesser-known settings can help you get a more comfortable, productive, and personalized desktop
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Every two years, Canonical puts out a Long Term Support release that gets five years of security updates, which can be stretched further with Ubuntu Pro. In between those LTS releases, Canonical ships an interim version every six months, and each one
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Ubuntu 26.04 is releasing today. It is natural to have questions about a new release, specially for beginners. I have tried to answer those frequently asked questions about Ubuntu 26.04 here. I hope it helps clear your doubts if you had any.
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Did you know you can get COSMIC on Ubuntu? This unofficial PPA makes it possible.
If you are a Raspberry Pi enthusiast like me, you’ve probably enjoyed the convenience of tools designed specifically for Pi devices. One such tool is raspi-config, a configuration utility that comes pre-installed with the Raspberry Pi OS. It is a handy interface
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If you are a regular user of Spotify, you can customize the look, feel and behavior of Spotify application on Linux. The open source project Spicetify lets you add a ‘marketplace’ feature to your Spotify app from where you can install extensions
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Ubuntu 24.04 ships with GNOME’s new camera app and it doesn’t work. It simply fails to recognize the in-built or external webcams. When you open the Camera app, it shows “No Camera Found. Connect a camera device” message. This may make you
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When you have a GPU on board, integrated or dedicated, there are some programs that help you get the necessary stats to check its temperature, free memory, and more. You can use them on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions as well. Unfortunately,
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Bluetooth headphones, Bluetooth mouse, Bluetooth keyboard. Bluetooth is part of our wireless computing life. There is one problem, though. It is not always easy to know when the Bluetooth devices needs to be charged or its battery should be changed. Headphones usually
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Though Ubuntu uses a customized version of the GNOME desktop environment, it doesn’t use the GNOME Software Center application. Ubuntu has its own ‘App Center’ application that is focused on Snap packages. It gives priority to Snaps over Deb and doesn’t support
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