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How to Install PCSX2 PlayStation 2 Emulator in Ubuntu 24.04

Last updated: March 11, 2025 — 4 Comments

This is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to install the most recent PCSX2, the free open-source Playstation 2 Emulator, in all current Ubuntu releases, including Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.

PCSX2 is an application that emulates the PS2’s hardware, allowing to play PS2 games on PC or laptop with additional features, such as custom resolutions and upscaling, virtual and sharable memory cards, save states, and internal recorder for lossless quality at full speed.

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Refine Updated with Re-arrange Min/Max/Close Buttons Support

Last updated: March 10, 2025 — Leave a comment

Refine, the graphical configuration tool for GNOME, got a new feature update few days ago.

Refine is a GNOME Tweaks alternative app that provides a graphical interface to configure advanced and experimental features in GNOME Desktop.

The app is in early development stage that keeps adding new features. And, now it supports re-arranging window title buttons.

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GNOME 48 RC Released with Global Shortcuts & HDR Luminance Setting UI

Last updated: March 9, 2025 — Leave a comment

GNOME 48, the default desktop environment for Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Workstation, is now in RC testing stage. While, the final stable release is planned for 2025-03-19.

The new release candidate enhanced the new features that were introduced in last Beta and Alpha releases, fixed numerous bugs, as well introduced some new features.

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Kdenlive Released 24.12.3 with Only Few Crash Fixes

Last updated: March 7, 2025 — Leave a comment

Kdenlive video editor 24.12.3 released yesterday! KDE announced it within the release of KDE Gear 24.12.3.

The is a minor release that only fixed two crashes and one audio issue. They are:

crash on single item deletion in group.
audio playback breaks when switching between bin clips.
and crash pasting clips with a same track transition (like dissolve).

Kdenlive Video Editor

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VS Code 1.98 Released! GPT 4.5 & Attach Images in Copilot Chat

Last updated: March 7, 2025 — Leave a comment

Visual Studio Code 1.98, the February release of the IDE and code editor, was released!

The release added 2 new AI models, GPT 4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, to choose from when using Copilot, and allows to change the model for inline suggestions.

image from openai.com

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KeePassXC 2.7.10 Released! Proton Pass Import & KeePass2 TOTP Settings

Last updated: March 7, 2025 — Leave a comment

KeePassXC, the cross-platform community fork of KeePass password manager, released version 2.7.10 few days ago.

The new KeePassXC 2.7.10 finally added support changing the font size between small, normal, medium, and large, making the app fit for different screen sizes and user needs.

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KeePass 2.58 Released with New Features [Ubuntu PPA]

Last updated: March 7, 2025 — 1 Comment

KeePass password manager released new 2.58 version few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu through PPA.

KeePass 2.58 improved its graphical user interface with some new options. It added Ctrl+H keyboard shortcut for the ‘Show/hide password using asterisks’ option in report dialogs.

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Thunderbird 136.0 is out! The First Release in New Monthly Channel

Last updated: March 6, 2025 — 1 Comment

Mozilla announced the new 136.0 release of its Thunderbird email client on Tuesday! It’s NOT ESR, but desktop release channel that updates every month!

As you may know, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser has a rapid release channel that updates every 4 weeks, and ESR channel releases major updates every year. Now, it uses the similar policy for Thunderbird!

Thunderbird 136.0 is the first release in the new official channel. And, there’ll be 137.0 in next month, 138.0 in May, and so forth.

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FFmpeg 7.1.1 Released with Few Hundred of Fixes & Improvements

Last updated: March 5, 2025 — Leave a comment

FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new 7.1.1 version few days ago. Here are the changelog and Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.

FFmpeg is a maintenance released with more then 2 hundreds of changes, which are primarily bug-fixes and improvements.

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How to Hide ‘snap’ sub-folder in Home folder in Ubuntu 24.04

Last updated: March 4, 2025 — Leave a comment

Ubuntu has some snap apps (e.g., Firefox and AppCenter) pre-installed in recent releases. The snap apps auto-generate a snap folder in user’s home directory to store app data, caches, and configuration files.

If you don’t want to see that folder, you may hide it or move to another location. And, here’s how to do the trick step by step in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10.

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