linux

Notice how much of a pain in the butt it is just to transfer data on or off a Linux drive under Windows? Whenever I wanna toy with a raspberry Pi, I have to set either another linux VM or use a Linux boot drive and it angers tf out of me. Somehow despite being two decades, there's still no...

If you've ever used Opera on Linux, you'll notice that videos on facebook don't play at all. Same goes for playing DRM movies/shows through YouTube movies or Netflix. The fix is to replace the libffmpeg.so library with one that actually works (supposedly Opera can't distribute it because of...

First off, open a terminal and type xrandr, scroll up and it'll show the name of your display here: Then for your program, you'll want to make a launcher on your desktop or something, and for the command line use this template: bash -c "xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 640x480 &&...

This actually applies to pretty much all Ubuntu based distros. But while it's doing the casper disc check on the splash screen, press CTRL+C at anytime to skip the MD5 checking. You can also press Escape to show what's exactly is happening in the console

Introduction: I've always had a bit of a secondary interest to Linux, there's always been some interesting software for it and it's very customisable. But I never really found it practical to use outside of maybe using it on an underpowered laptop that can't handle Windows 10 etc (such as a...

I have a Dell Optiplex GX520 system, I've tried using Debian but so far I've ran into many problems. Most solutions people mention do not work but I'm gonna explain. I think this happens on a clean install if you use XFCE (which of course everyone uses). If you have no sound have a look at your...

Alright, so I'm gonna pretend you're completely new to Linux as I was and try to compile a simple program. A lot of programs need to be compiled from the source (for some reason). I think it's because if they want the program to work on different architectures (such as ARM, PowerPC devices etc)...