News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Don’t like the snap packages? Here’s the step by step guide shows how to completely remove and block them in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Snap is an universal Linux package format developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Similar to the Flatpak competitor, it runs applications in isolated sandbox environments, improving security and making possible to run most recent software in old Linux Distributions without worrying about dependency issues.
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For users switching from Windows, this tutorial shows you how to enable the Windows style “My Computer” (it’s now “This PC”) navigation item in the left pane of Ubuntu 26.04 default file manager.
Nautilus (aka GNOME Files) used to have a “Other Locations” item in left pane, allowing to take a quick glance at local disk volumes on your computer, access network drives, and connect remote sources.
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.
