Practical Linux tips and tricks – terminal shortcuts, productivity hacks, and configuration tweaks for Ubuntu and other distros.
I was skeptical about AI tools in a DevOps workflow for a long time. Every demo I saw showed someone asking AI Agent to write a Hello World Dockerfile. That’s not a DevOps use case, that’s a simple chat. What changed my mind was using Claude for things that actually slow me down at work….
This tutorial shows you how to install TiDB using TiUP, start a local cluster, connect to it with the MySQL client, and run your first queries on Ubuntu and RHEL-based Linux systems. If you’ve ever struggled to scale MySQL beyond a single write node, TiDB offers a solution without requiring you to learn a new…
GOG built its whole brand around selling DRM-free games and providing offline installers that work without requiring an internet connection or any kind of verification from their side. They even encourage people to download installers and copy them over to physical media like discs, and treat the copy as theirs. This is something the big…
In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller… ARCTIC today launched their new Fan Controller and in making the product very unique for Linux users, it already has mainline Linux kernel support via a open-source driver contributed directly by ARCTIC. Back…
The 0.11 version of Wayfire has been released as a major update to the extensible 3D Wayland compositor, including significant improvements in fractional display scaling, color management, HDR rendering, Vulkan-powered effects, and the handling of external plugins. A prominent feature of the new release is a revamped geometry system which aims to achieve better results…
When I heard that Flock was the most awaited event every year for the Fedora community, and that I was going to be a part of it, I was genuinely excited. Gradually, I found myself involved right in the middle of Flock 2026 planning. Months of planning. Dozens of meetings. Meeting notes referenced and re-referenced…
You can now install an official Google Chrome build on Arm64 Linux devices, including the Raspberry Pi. Back in March, Google promised Chrome for Arm64 Linux in “Q2 2026” so users on SBCs, AI desktops and the growing-fleet of Snapdragon laptops out there, could use the flagship browser and benefit from the handful of extras it offers over…
17 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: GNOME ships with a bare-bones Activities overview and no quick-access power menu. Kiwi Menu replaces the Activities button with a compact, macOS-inspired dropdown that puts session controls, recent files, and a Force Quit dialog one click away. I tested it on Ubuntu 26.04 with GNOME 50 and it completely changes…
A recorded lecture, a podcast published as video, a concert clip you only ever listen to: sometimes all you want from an MP4 is its audio track. ffmpeg does this in one command, with full control over the output quality. This guide shows how to convert MP4 to MP3 with ffmpeg, pick sensible quality settings,…
Don’t we learn something new everyday? Something that might be obvious to others but feels like discovery to you? I had that feeling when I learned about the concept of compose override in Docker. In my self-hosted Ghost CMS deployment, I made modifications in the compose file to introduce log rotation. But now the compose…
