Tag Archives: Linux

In 1985, Commodore released the Amiga family of personal computers to the market. They were pretty successful in their time and sold quite a few units before ultimately being retired by Commodore in 1996. These days, old computer emulation is as popular as old console emulation, especially on Linux. However, …

Ulauncher is an excellent application launcher that when installed, makes it very easy to find and launch your files, quickly open websites, find programs to open, calculate math problems, and more. This app isn’t the first app launcher for Linux we’ve covered on Addictivetips. In fact, in the past, we …

Lots of people are using Gnome Shell these days, as many mainstream Linux projects are adopting the desktop environment as their default user interface. Overall, this is a good move, as Gnome is reliable, easy to use, and getting faster with every release. However, even great desktops like Gnome have …

The Steam client has problems playing some games on Linux with Nvidia graphics cards if the operating system it is installed on does not have 32-bit graphical libraries installed. The reason? Even though the Steam app is 64-bit, many of the video games in the Steam store do not run …

ProtonMail is the go-to mail service for journalists, activists, and people seeking privacy during their email conversations. All communications are encrypted end-to-end, and is open source, ensuring the free software community can audit the code for any vulnerabilities. ProtonMail has mobile applications for Android and iOS, but desktop users don’t …

The Stupid Simple Server Monitor application is an open source tool for the Linux platform that aims to deliver a useful, simple server monitoring platform. It provides real-time data on servers about bandwidth, performance, memory usage, etc. It’s clear that there are dozens of server monitoring dashboards on Linux, like …

There are a lot of excellent note taking applications on Linux, but one that’s worth your attention is QOwnNotes. Why? It’s an excellent note app that lets users format their data with markdown. Better yet, you can sync QOwnNotes with NextCloud! Here’s how to set it up on Linux. Install …

Re-installing programs on Fedora Linux can take a long time. Mainly because, to do it, you need to look at DNF for your installed applications, figure out the names, and manually write out every app you’d like to set up. Rather than sitting down and manually installing everything, you can …

Discord is the king of communication with gaming. Even on Linux, most people use it. It’s no secret why! The app provides users with unlimited free personal servers, unlimited chat channels, voice channels, multimedia support, and more! While Discord is getting all the love as everyone’s favorite gaming chat app, …

Fedora is a powerful Linux distribution that many prefer to use due to many factors, including its new packages, development focus, advanced system, commitment to open source, etc. Still, for as good as Fedora Linux is, it has a severe downside: the DNF package manager, and how slow it is …