Ubuntu 18.04 Tools and Apps
This serves to be an ever-changing personal list of what to install if I ever redo my Ubuntu machine. Currently I am running Ubuntu 18.04 so can only guarantee compatibility with…
Fix: Android emulators not starting in Ubuntu
Often this happens when for some reason or the other your OpenGL config is broken. This is often an issue on Ubuntu 17.04. To confirm this is your problem, (Assuming…
Best linux distro for daily use in 2017
A new year has begun. Time to format my disks. New windows install and more importantly, new Linux install. With windows, the choice is easy. Windows 10. With Linux, it’s a bit more complicated….
Here were the candidates
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Here’s a little history about my relationship with Ubuntu. Ubuntu was my first distro and all was right with the world, I would never have left… that is.. until the fire nation att… until unity. It was a bit of a messy breakup, something about it just didn’t resonate with my soul. A year or two ago I tried it again but I remember seeing amazon search results integrated by default and was instantly disgusted. But time has passed, seasons have changed and I believe people learn from their mistakes..so I wanted to give it another shot. so I did… (more…)
How to speedup (stop lag) in Fedora 25
With Fedora 25 (as you probably already know) X was replaced with Wayland as the default display server. Now while I applaud Fedora for taking that giant step forward. The fact…
How to fix ssh locale issues on Linux
So you ssh into your server and all over the place you see something like perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE =…
How to get open terminal in Fedora 24 (Gnome)
The usual package nautilus-open-terminal was replaced by gnome-terminal-nautilus so you can just sudo dnf install gnome-terminal-nautilus-3.20.2-2.fc24.x86_64
How to install intel drivers on Fedora 24
So Fedora 24 came out recently and just like me you ran and did yourself a fresh install. Now you want those video drivers and Intel Graphics installer tells you…
How to fix .local dns resolution on Fedora 23
Most likely in your nsswitch file you have a line like hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname mymachines The default settings instructs the pc to resolve all .local…
How to fix large chrome address bar and tabs in linux
Close ALL instances of chrome In the terminal type google-chrome --high-dpi-support=1 --force-device-scale-factor=1 you can add those flags in the necessary palaces to keep the change. In my case, Xubuntu 16.04,…
How to run a command at startup in Linux
There are two main ways to do this Put commands or program in the rc.local file nano /etc/rc.local or 2. Use the special crontab @reboot so, access crontab with crontab…