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hendrickn/Shutterstock / Microsoft Ever so quietly, Microsoft dropped a new operating system out in the wild. No, not Windows 11. Microsoft created its own Linux…

Because Linux is a multi-user operating system, it has a mechanism that sets and manages file permissions to ensure that only authorized processes and users…

Linux printing can be a bit of a challenge – especially to new users. In this tutorial, we introduce you to the lp command in…

Want to start gaming on Linux? With utilities like Steam’s Proton tool, it’s not a pipe dream anymore, even if your game is officially supported…

As you work with various Linux distributions, you will need to install software repositories, including third-party repositories such as Ubuntu PPAs. In most cases, the…

You may have heard (or experienced for yourself) that Windows 11 Home edition won’t let you set up your computer without signing in to or creating…

Ocenaudio, Apple, Audacity Audacity is the go-to audio editor for a lot of people, and for good reason—it’s simple, free, and still reasonably powerful. But…

This wikiHow teaches you how to change your computer, phone, or tablet’s default web browser to one you’d prefer to use. You can change the…

If you’re forced to use a Linux script to connect to a password-protected resource, you probably feel uneasy about putting that password in the script….

On Linux systems, each file is associated with an owner and group owner. When you don’t have the appropriate permission, you won’t be able to…

Enlarge / The latest Windows focuses heavily on improved task management, prettier UI, and a much more ambitious Microsoft Store. (credit: Microsoft) Earlier this morning,…

Linux programs ask the kernel to do some things for them. The strace command reveals these system calls. You can use them to understand how…

Bash dictionaries give you hash maps and associative arrays in Linux shell scripts. We’ll show you how to use these powerful and useful data structures…

Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. It’s not in Ubuntu’s standard software repositories, however, because it isn’t open-source. You can install…

Signal, the secure encrypted messenger app, doesn’t offer an app for Chromebooks. The Android version won’t run on Chromebooks, either—but, by using the Chrome OS…

Have you ever broken apt? For seasoned Linux professionals, it’s quite common (about every half year) to unwittingly break apt. If you know a few…

After years of behind-the-scenes development, Google’s Fuchsia OS is making its public debut on the first-generation Nest Hub. The new operating system, which Google built…

Google has ramped up Chrome’s release schedule, with new Chrome versions coming out every four weeks. Chrome 91 stabilizes Linux on Chromebooks, improves Tab Search,…

Microsoft is still working to go fully carbon negative by the end of the decade, but effectively grappling with climate change isn’t just one company’s…

When Linux app support landed on Chrome OS in 2018, the feature was incredibly unstable. Most apps didn’t work, and those that did were buggy…

The Bash shell is over 30 years old and still going strong. What does it do, where did it come from, and why is it…

Mozilla Firefox doesn’t have an official option to copy web addresses (URLs) of all open tabs to your clipboard. But there’s an easy trick to…