Practical Linux tips and tricks – terminal shortcuts, productivity hacks, and configuration tweaks for Ubuntu and other distros.
Today’s batch of AMDGPU Display Code “DC” updates bring a few noteworthy items for benefiting modern hardware under Linux. The new set of AMDGPU DC code updates for their open-source Linux driver bring a few noteworthy items along with a ton of test case additions to hopefully help preserve quality and prevent regressions moving forward. …
Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X has been released today as the project’s biggest update so far, for this young Linux desktop environment built for X11. It is written in C++ and Qt, aiming to offer a more traditional desktop experience rather than following the current trend of modern, gesture-heavy, Wayland-first environments. What’s interesting is that the…
Anthropic has released a beta of its Claude desktop app for Linux, launching alongside an apt repo Ubuntu users can add for ongoing updates. According to the official docs, Claude desktop for Linux offers “the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as macOS and Windows: parallel sessions, visual diff review, an integrated terminal and…
15 Sarah’s Networking Brief: Every corporate Linux box I have ever deployed sat behind a proxy. The first time I joined a company with strict egress filtering, I spent three hours debugging a broken apt update before realizing the machine had no proxy environment variables set. That experience taught me that proxy configuration is not…
Scripts often depend on tools such as git, curl, jq, or docker. If one of those commands is missing, Bash usually fails later with command not found, which can be hard to diagnose if the script has already created files, changed directories, or started a deployment step. A small dependency check at the top of…
If you run multiple AI coding agents at the same time, you’ve probably faced this problem: too many terminal tabs, no clear way to know which agent is waiting for your input, and constantly switching between tabs just to check their status. A few months ago, I started running Claude Code in one terminal and…
Recently, Microsoft reluctantly agrred that a bug was eating up uo to 500 GB of disk space in Windows 11. They knew about the bug for months, no fix came. Germany may not have kicked right in the Paraguay match, but it sure has kicked out Microsoft Sharepoint. The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will be using…
With the Linux 7.2 kernel there is initial support for booting the Apple M3 SoC on Linux but it’s not yet functional for end users with just booting to a simple console. There are now Device Tree files posted for booting the Apple M4 on Linux but also not yet useful for any typical Apple…
Vivaldi Technologies has released Vivaldi 8.1 for desktop, as a small, focused update that improves the daily browsing experience by fixing bugs and refining existing functionality, particularly in response to recent user feedback. Here are the most important points to note. Tab behavior has been improved. Vivaldi’s advanced tab management features, including tab stacks, tab…
Linux Mint says Wayland support in its next release will no longer be considered experimental, but available as a fully-supported option. However, it will continue to provide and support X11, unlike other Linux distributions which have jettisoned the legacy Xorg/X11 display server from their default installations – Ubuntu dropped Xorg support in 25.10. “We worked really…
