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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Tiling windows is a method of arranging open windows on a computer screen so that they do not overlap, but instead fit neatly alongside one another. It’s been popular among people customizing their desktops. Probably why Ubuntu has also started providing support
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Recently I encountered a strange issue in Ubuntu 24.04. When I ran some applications, their icons didn’t show in the launcher. Instead, it displayed a gear/settings symbol. Some application icons are not shown in the launcher This was particularly weird because those
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It’s only human to forget passwords, especially if you are not using it frequently. It happens with Ubuntu, Linux, or any other operating system you use. If you don’t use it frequently, you are likely to forget the password. I have written
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If you are exploring Python-based projects and packages, you may end up in a situation where you need a different Python version. I faced this situation while trying to install PyCoral library that works only with Python versions 3.6 to 3.9 and
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