My laptop has issues with coil whine, resulting in me needing to disable Intel Turbo Boost. I usually use a GNOME Extension like CPU Power Manager but at the time of writing that extension isn’t compatible with GNOME 40, and isn’t much use for non-GNOME users. Firstly elevate to sudo with sudo -i, then: nano […]
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This month we’ve picked some of the best looking GNOME/GTK3 themes available from Pling. Almost every theme we’ve picked has dark/light variants and some have coloured variants too. We’ve used the Papirus icon pack available here. Venta X Dark Screenshot: Download URL: https://www.pling.com/p/1396612 Ant Screenshot: Download URL: https://www.pling.com/p/1099856/ Orchis Screenshot: Download URL: https://www.pling.com/p/1357889/ Materials Original
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As many are likely already aware, Fedora is RedHat’s free (in both senses) Linux distribution. It shuns proprietary software and code and instead only includes FOSS at every level from kernel to userland. Fedora 33 launched today, so let’s have a look and see what’s changed. UI Updates: GNOME: Fedora 33 ships with GNOME 3.38,
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Canonical has released Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, while not much has changed over 20.04 it does bring us a handful of new things (namely GNOME 3.38.0, ZFS is no longer classified as experimental, and the Linux Kernel 5.8). 1. Install a new theme and icons 20.10 might have only just been released, but Ubuntu’s UI
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Linux support for printers straight after an install is excellent, even on a FOSS-only distro like Fedora. To add your network connected printer, I’d recommend finding instructions from the printer manufacturer but failing that (or if you don’t want to download their driver package), you can probably get it working without downloading a single driver.
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As part of a new blogpost series, we’re going to be picking a monthly winner for our UI of the Month contest. Every Reddit thread we come across recommends the same things, and it’s not much better on theme marketplaces either so we’ve decided to share a new theme + icon pack every month. Icon Pack:
UI of the Month – August 2020 Read More »
One of the best things about using a popular desktop environment like GNOME is that there are thousands of different themes available, each of them doing things in their own unique way. Here is a list of our top 5 this month, most of them have different colour options so you can pick lighter/darker modes
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