Note: April 8th 2022. This may no longer work. It worked at the time of writing, but my printers keep coming up again now. Modern GNOME based distros automatically discover and install printers on your network and there’s no easy way to disable this. In the past disabling cups-browsed was enough, but we also now need to […]
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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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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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After a couple of years of rumours, Microsoft Edge for Linux is finally available for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE in Dev Channel form from Microsoft’s website). This version of Edge will be updated on a weekly basis, with future Beta and Canary versions hopefully available soon. Bringing Edge to Linux is an important step
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One of the best things about Linux is how basically anything is possible. Out of the box most Linux distros get a lot right, but there are some great tweaks you do to make the experience even better. This is aimed at GNOME users (e.g; Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS all use GNOME out of
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If you have a modern pair of Bluetooth headphones, chances are it supports aptX. I personally prefer the sound of the AAC Bluetooth codec, but aptX-LL (Low Latency) is a must-have if your headphones support it for watching videos and minimising A/V sync issues. If your headphones support aptX-HD or Sony’s LDAC, you’ll also want
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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:
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If you’ve bumped into the “Hard disk quota is not supported due to the configuration of the server file system.” error in Plesk, or just need to enable hard disk quotas this guide is for you! This guide is tested on CentOS 8 with Plesk installed, but only the last step includes Plesk specific commands
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ClamAV is a FOSS anti-virus product, and while it doesn’t offer features we’re all used to now such as real-time scanning we’ll walk you through the process of configuring a cronjob to scan on a regular basis. Premium AV is still our recommendation if you want advanced security, but ClamAV is sufficient for most use
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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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