Using Flatpak on Ubuntu and Other Linux [Complete Guide]

Brief: Flatpak is a new universal packaging format from Fedora. Enabling Flatpak will give you access to the easy installation of many Linux applications. Here’s how to use Flatpak in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. Installing an application in Linux is as easy as opening the Software Center, searching and installing it. The applications which […]

Grafana open source analytics and monitoring software

Grafana is an open source, feature rich, powerful, elegant and highly-extensible analytics and monitoring software that runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is a de facto software for data analytics, being used at Stack Overflow, eBay, PayPal, Uber and Digital Ocean – just to mention but a few. It supports 30+ open source as well as commercial databases/data sources including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Graphite, Elasticsearch, OpenTSDB, Prometheus and InfluxDB. It allows you to dig deeply into large […]

Top 14 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 18.04

Tutorial guide on 14 Things to do after Installing Ubuntu 18.04 0:32 New Welcome Screen $ snap install ubuntu-mate-welcome 1:19 Install Drivers 1:34 Browser Selection 2:03 New theme – Communitheme $ sudo snap install communitheme 2:58 Restricted Extras $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras $ sudo apt –no-install-recommends install libdvd-pkg $ sudo […]

A Beginners Guide To Flatpak

A Beginners Guide To Flatpak A while, we have written about Ubuntu’s Snaps. Snaps are introduced by Canonical for Ubuntu operating system, and later it was adopted by other Linux distributions such as Arch, Gentoo, and Fedora etc. A snap is a single binary package bundled with all required libraries and dependencies, and you can install […]

How to Change Lid Close Action in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – Tips on Ubuntu

How to Change Lid Close Action in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS In Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome desktop, there’s no option in Settings utility for configuring laptop lid close actions. And Gnome Tweaks only offer a switch to enable / disable ‘Suspend when laptop lid is closed’.For those who want it automatic shutdown, hibernate, or do nothing when laptop lid is closed, here’s how to do […]

Things to do After Installing Ubuntu 18.04

Things to do after installing Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver I should mention that the list of things to do after installing Ubuntu 18.04 depends a lot on you and your interests and needs. If you are a programmer, you’ll focus on installing programming tools. If you are a graphic designer, you’ll focus on installing graphics […]

Ubuntu 18.04: What’s New?

We review Ubuntu 18.04, the latest Ubuntu release. It features a huge set of changes, including the GNOME Shell desktop by default. In this video we cover the most notable changes you’ll find in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. ▶︎ Read more in our Ubuntu 18.04 review: ★ 11 Things to do after installing Ubuntu 18.04: You […]