News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Missing the small image preview for your audio and videos files in file manager? Here’s how to re-enable this function in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
As you probably know, the thumbnail images for audio and video files in the previous Ubuntu releases are generated by Totem video player.
Ubuntu finally retired the legacy NVIDIA driver 470 for all current Ubuntu releases! Here’s how to manually install it back for those who run Ubuntu on GeForce GT 710/730/780 etc Kepler GPUs (GeForce 700, 600, TITAN, and Tesla series).
Ubuntu announced the end of life of NVIDIA 470 driver support a few months ago. For Ubuntu 26.04, the legacy driver package is excluded in system repository. While, Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 have migrated the package to NVIDIA 535.
Want to adjust the touchpad 2-finger scrolling speed in Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 with default GNOME Desktop on Wayland?
There’s now a free open-source application that provides a graphical user interface to do the things as easy as a few mouse clicks.
This is a step by step guide shows how to install and set up Dante socks5 proxy server in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Dante is a free open-source software allowing to route network traffic between clients and servers. With it, you may bypass network restrictions, e.g., visit network resources that’re not available via direct access.
You may also use it to hide your original IP address, so that the destination server only sees the Dante server’s IP. In my case, I use dante socks proxy to reduce latency for better gaming experiences.
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Found the image viewers and editors, such as Loupe and GIMP, cannot load HEIF/HEIC images by default in Ubuntu 26.04? Here’s a quick guide show you why and how to fix.
Today I found that the default Loupe image viewer in Ubuntu 26.04 could not load my photo images imported from iPhone.
It said “Either the image file is corrupted or it contains unsupported elements“, and the more information page showed the error below:
This tutorial shows how to install the latest version of fish shell, and set it as default in Ubuntu. Though the title says for Ubuntu 26.04, it also works on Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04.
Fish, stands for Friendly Interactive SHell, is an extremely popular command line interpreter that reads your text input, interprets and tells OS what to run, and returns the output.
Want to insert special characters (e.g., e.g., ©, ®, æ, ß, ¼, º) and/or diacritical characters (e.g., á, ä, é, ẽ) in your Ubuntu desktop?
Without coping from web or using an app (e.g., Gnome Characters), you can type them directly via your physical keyboard. And, below I’m going to show you how to do the job step by step.
Transmission, the default BitTorrent client does not work properly in Ubuntu 26.04. Here are a few workarounds.
Due to new version of the AppArmor security module, some features in the Transmission BitTorrent client do not work properly in Ubuntu since 25.04.
This is a step by step beginners guide shows how to install the most recent NVIDIA drivers in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
There are two official ways to install NVIDIA drivers in Ubuntu: one from Ubuntu developers, the other from NVIDIA website.
Chromium user but don’t like running app in sandbox environment? Here’s how to install the native DEB package for this popular web browser in Ubuntu 26.04 and 24.04 LTS.
Ubuntu since 20.04 has Chromium browser built as Snap package that runs in sandbox. It may be great for security and auto update, but lacks a choice for those who don’t like it.
