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If you are a new Linux user and seeking help in one of the Linux forums, you may be asked this question: “Which desktop environment are you using?” You have an idea about what a desktop environment is but how do you know which one are you using? I’ll tell you how to find it […]

It’s always good to see several competitions or challenges trying to promote Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) more than ever. In a recent effort by GNOME with the help of Endless, they announced the inaugural GNOME Community Engagement Challenge. This Community Challenge is a part of their original announcement of coding education challenge for which […]

If you have been using Arch Linux or other distribution based on Arch such as Manjaro, you might have comes across the term AUR. You try to install a new software and someone suggests to install it from AUR. This leaves you confused. What is this AUR? Why is it used? How to use AUR? […]

Creating a template in LibreOffice can save you some time for the documents that you use often. It can be a letter, a financial spreadsheet or even a presentation. Time is one factor that a template can save and on the other hand it provides consistency where a group of people in an organization work […]

Deepin is a beautiful desktop environment with an intuitive UI. UbuntuDDE project combines the power of Ubuntu and the beauty of Deepin. Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) is a beautiful desktop environment created by the developers of Deepin Linux. Initially, Deepin Linux was based on Ubuntu but later they switched to Debian. Deepin Desktop Environment in […]

Brief: Bitwarden is a popular open-source password manager. Here, we take a look at what it has to offer. Bitwarden is a free and open-source password manager. You might remember that earlier we listed it as one of the best password managers available for Linux. Personally, I’ve been using Bitwarden as my password manager across […]

Bodhi Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. Unlike most other distributions, Bodhi uses its own Moksha desktop and focuses on providing you a minimal setup to run on older computers. What is Bodhi Linux? Bodhi Start Page Bodhi Linux was first introduced in 2011. It is designed with “minimalism, resource efficiency, and […]

Raspberry Pi is an indispensable single-board computer that comes in handy for a lot of work. Don’t believe me? Just go through this list of Raspberry Pi projects to get a gist of what this tiny device is capable of. Considering how useful a Raspberry Pi is – it is an important task to choose […]

Switzerland based ProtonMail is one of the best secure email services for privacy-concerned users with a focus on providing open source solution. Apart from encrypted email service, they also provide a free VPN service in the form of ProtonVPN. Providing the same encrypted email service through desktop client was a problem. To solve that problem, […]

LBRY is a new Blockchain-based, open source platform for sharing digital content. It is gaining popularity as a decentralized alternative to YouTube but LBRY is more than just a video sharing service. LBRY is an open source blockchain based platform for content sharing At the core of it, LBRY is a new protocol which is […]