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LinuxDay-to-day Linux desktop tooling: system update automation, Distrobox/AUR, hibernate, a practical Git workflow, GRUB/swap/zram tuning, GNOME customization, and small CLI utilities.
- 01Fedora + Distrobox + Arch + AUR Setup GuideLearn how to install Distrobox on Fedora, create an Arch Linux container with NVIDIA GPU support, use AUR packages, and export GUI apps back to your host menu.2 min read
Abdallah Shehawey
- 02Enabling Hibernate on LinuxHibernate saves the entire contents of RAM to disk and powers the machine off completely; powering back on restores the session exactly where it was left, with no battery drain in between (unlike…2 min read
- 03A Practical Git WorkflowThis walks through the complete day-to-day loop for contributing to a repository: cloning it, working on a branch, committing, pushing, opening a pull request, and staying in sync with everyone…1 min read
- 04Useful Linux Commands & TipsA running collection of small, easy-to-forget commands that come up often enough on a day-to-day Linux desktop to be worth keeping in one place — Bluetooth resets, GPU switching, bulk…2 min read
- 05Mirroring Your Android Screen with Scrcpyscrcpy displays and controls an Android phone from a Linux PC, over either USB or Wi-Fi, with low latency and no root required — a solid open-source replacement for tools like Iriun.2 min read
- 06Downloading Media with Yt-dlpyt-dlp is an actively-maintained fork of youtube-dl for downloading video and audio from YouTube and hundreds of other sites, with better performance and much more frequent updates.2 min read
- 07Consistent C/c++ Style with Clang-formatclang-format enforces a single, consistent C/C++ style automatically, instead of relying on everyone to format code by hand the same way. This covers installing it, setting up a global style config,…1 min read
- 08Auto-mounting Drives at BootSecondary drives — an NTFS Windows partition, a shared data disk — don't mount themselves on every boot unless /etc/fstab tells the kernel to do it. This walks through adding fstab entries safely,…1 min read
- 09Customizing GrubGRUB's default look is purely functional. Installing a theme and tuning a couple of settings makes boot feel intentional instead of accidental, and along the way it's worth knowing how to regenerate…2 min read
- 10Linux Swap Files ExplainedSwap space is what the kernel falls back to when RAM fills up: inactive memory pages get moved out to disk instead of the system triggering an out-of-memory kill. It's slower than RAM, but it's the…1 min read
- 11Zram: Compressed Swap in Ramzram creates a compressed block device that lives entirely in RAM and is typically used as swap. Because it's RAM-backed and compressed, swapping to it is far faster than swapping to disk — it buys…2 min read
- 12Custom App Launch Behavior Via .desktop FilesChanging how a Linux application launches — forcing dark mode, injecting an environment variable, adding a HiDPI scale flag — doesn't require patching the app itself. Every launchable app on the…1 min read
- 13Custom Mime Icons in GnomeChanging the icon GNOME shows for a specific file type — say, giving .md files their own icon instead of a generic text-file icon — doesn't require touching the system's Adwaita theme or any…2 min read
- 14Fixing Missing Dock Icons (startupwmclass)Occasionally an app shows the right icon in the GNOME Applications menu, but once launched, the Dock displays a generic icon instead. That happens when GNOME can't match the running window to the…1 min read
- 15Installing Questasim for Hdl SimulationQuestaSim is Mentor Graphics' HDL simulator, commonly used for Verilog/VHDL verification work. Getting 2021.2 running on a modern Ubuntu or Fedora install takes a bit of work, since it needs 32-bit…2 min read
Abdelrahman Adwe Ali
- 16Building Python 2 From SourceSome older tools — QuestaSim's license generator among them — still hard-depend on Python 2, which modern distros no longer package. Building it from source into an isolated location keeps it fully…1 min read
- 17Auto-Starting WhatsApp and Telegram (Minimized or Tray)Many daily applications don't natively support starting minimized to the system tray on Linux desktop startup. This guide shows how to set up autostart for the Flatpak versions of WhatsApp and…2 min read
- 18Custom Neovim Configuration GuideSetting up a modern, custom IDE environment with Neovim on Linux doesn't require starting completely from scratch. This guide details installing build and search dependencies on Fedora, leveraging…2 min read
- 19Running Windows Applications on Linux Seamlessly with WinBoat (Docker)How WinBoat uses Docker containers to run Windows applications like Microsoft Office and Photoshop directly on your Linux desktop with seamless menu integration.1 min read
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