News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Paint.NET image editor added experimental Linux support with version 5.2 Alpha. Here’s step by step guide shows how to try it out in Ubuntu.
There are quite a few Paint.NET alternative apps with native Linux support, but it’s always good to see a Windows app add Linux support.
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For those who want to try out the most recent Mesa graphics library 26.2, it’s finally easy to install in Ubuntu through the popular kisak-mesa fresh PPA.
Mesa is the user-space open-source graphics drivers and libraries let apps and games on Linux access to the GPU, especially for Intel/AMD GPUs.
Audacity released the new 4.0.0 version a few days ago! Here’s the new PPA contains the native .deb for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
The new 4.0.0 version of this audio editor and recording application is a new major release that ported its UI from wxWidgets to Qt6 with native high-DPI rendering support.
This tutorial shows how to install the last version of Darktable (5.6.1 so far) via native DEB package in Ubuntu 26.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and their based distributions such as Linux Mint 22.x.
Darktable is a popular free open-source photography and raw developer application, which is so far at version 5.6.1. It provides official Linux package as non-install AppImage.
Want to display your lovely photo images as desktop widget, here’s an extension that can do the job for Ubuntu and other Linux with recent GNOME Desktop.
It’s Desktop Frames, a GNOME Shell extension that can create multiple desktop widgets that display random images from user selected folders.
For those who have computers or laptops with Synaptics / Validity fingerprint sensors, there’s a new pull request contains the driver for libfprint, the default fingerprint library in most Linux Distributions.
As you might know, libfprint has a list of unsupported devices. It includes many Lenovo Thinkpad and HP laptops with 138a and 06cb sensors.
This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install the GCC 16 compiler in Ubuntu 24.04 / Linux Mint 22.x, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and even the old Ubuntu 18.04.
GCC 16 is so far the latest major version of the GNU Compiler Collection. It’s available in Ubuntu 26.04 repository but non-default.
This tutorial shows how to install the latest .NET 11.0.0 (preview so far) runtime and/or SDK in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 26.04 via DEB package.
Version 11 of Microsoft’s open-source .NET developer platform is currently in preview. The final release is expected in November 2026.
The native Linux app for NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW finally goes stable! Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
GeForce Now is NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service that streams high-end PC games to laptops, phones, and TVs, allowing for better gaming experience without requiring high-end hardware.
This is a step by step guide shows how to install the Claude Desktop App in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and their based Linux Distributions.
The Claude Desktop for Linux is so far a Beta app that provides the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as on macOS and Windows.
