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If you have just installed Fedora and now wants to install your favorite video player VLC on it, you probably won’t find it in the software center. Not immediately, at least. For reasons best known to their developers, Fedora neither ship with VLC nor does it include in the official Fedora repository. So, how do […]

Every Linux distribution comes with a document viewer app that lets you read PDF and other documents. Most of the time, it is Evince from GNOME that is displayed as Document Viewer in Ubuntu and some other distributions. Evince is a handy tool and supports a wide variety of document formats. However, there are other […]

There are countless open-source solutions (including website creation tools and forum software) that power the web, and a helpdesk system is one of the vital areas that can benefit from it. UVdesk is a free and open-source PHP based support ticket system with impressive options that you can start for free. Here I shall mention […]

So, I just installed Fedora. Installing my favorite applications was among the list of things to do after installing Fedora. I tried installing VLC in Flatpak form, but it gave me an error: error: No remote refs found similar to ‘flathub’ No remote refs found error displayed with Flatpak Fixing “no remote refs found similar […]

Android is built on top of a heavily customized Linux kernel. So, running mobile apps on Linux makes sense using an Android emulator. While this is not something new that you can do on your Linux machine, it is a feature more in demand after Windows introduced the ability to run Android apps in 2021. […]

GNOME 40 brought a radical new interface with a horizontal first approach. One of the features in this approach is a three finger swipe for touchpad. Swipe three fingers up on the touchpad and brings up the activity menu. Do it once more and you’ll have the application menu. Move the fingers down and you’ll […]

Love minimalism? You’ll love Clapper. Clapper is a new video player for Linux. Actually, it’s more for GNOME than Linux. Built on top of GNOME’s JavaScript library and GTK4 toolkit, it blends naturally in the GNOME desktop environment. It uses GStreamer for media backend and OpenGL for rendering. I like application with minimalist approach. While […]

There are hundreds of Linux distributions. Some are for general purpose usage, while some are specifically tailored for education, robotics, hacking, gaming and what not. You’ll notice that most of them originate from Debian/Ubuntu, Arch and Red Hat/Fedora. If you like distrohopping and experiment with a range of distributions, you may soon get ‘bored’ out […]

Can kids use Linux distributions? And is it suitable for school use? Well, that depends on what are your options and what you choose to go with. No matter whether you want something for a kid or the school teacher, there are options available. Hence, to give you a head start, we have curated a […]

Converseen is a free and open source software for batch image conversion. With this tool, you can convert multiple images to another format, resize, change their aspect ratio, rotate or flip them all at once. This is a handy tool for someone like me who has to deal with multiple screenshots of different size but […]