Practical Linux tips and tricks – terminal shortcuts, productivity hacks, and configuration tweaks for Ubuntu and other distros.
21 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: Linux just crossed 7.5% global desktop market share according to StatCounter’s July 2026 data. That number might sound small, but for an operating system that spent decades below 2%, it represents a genuine inflection point. I have been tracking Linux desktop adoption for years, and this is the first time…
A common frustration when working with Git is needing to switch branches while your current working tree has uncommitted changes. You can stash the changes , switch branches, make the fix, switch back, and restore the stash, but that flow interrupts your work and can create conflicts. git worktree lets you check out another branch…
Linux provides tons of command line utilities that Linux administrators learned years ago are now outdated. They still work, the man pages are still there, and nobody’s going to stop you from using them, but most are no longer actively maintained. Modern replacements do the same job more efficiently and are available by default on…
Kitty is a popular terminal emulator that supports many modern features. Focused on power users, it offers a wide range of customization that other terminals often lack. For example, it includes a functional image display protocol and smooth cursor animations. I have shown Kitty tweaking in the past, and in the regards, I would like…
Intel recently announced Starfire as their new Panther Lake derived, space-grade SoC designed for extreme environments… like survivability in space. With the Linux 7.3, we are going to begin seeing the first Intel Starfire specific patches land in the kernel. Intel announced the space-grade Starfire SoC in July and with engineering samples to begin shipping…
Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter’s latest figures for July 2026. The result places Linux firmly in double-digit territory for the first time in Statcounter’s North American desktop operating system statistics. For comparison, Statcounter…
Evolution, change, and innovation are important parts of Fedora. This applies both to our open source technology and in how we sustain the community that builds it. As Fedora changes with the world around us, so too must the roles that support it. This includes the Fedora Community Architect role. Today, we (Justin & Shaun)…
Some Linux desktop environments were developed over decades, others in just a few years. Starling, which made the rounds online this week, claims to have been built by just one person in six months using AI coding tools. What’s more, a preview build is available as a .deb to install on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Yup,…
37 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: I have been using KDE Plasma as my daily driver for over six years, and the one thing that always drove me insane was copying a folder full of small files through Dolphin. It was painfully slow. Turns out, a KDE developer just fixed a 12-year-old bug that explains exactly…
Clicking through the AWS console works for a one-off task, but the moment you manage instances, buckets, or DNS records regularly, you want those actions in your shell history and your scripts. The AWS CLI puts every AWS API behind a single aws command, so listing instances, syncing a bucket, or rotating a key becomes…
