Linux Mint

KDE Plasma (KDE) is a well-known desktop environment for Unix-like systems designed for users who wants to have a nice desktop environment for their machines, it is one of the most used desktop interfaces out there. In this article, we…

Google Chrome Browser developed by Google Inc. is a freeware web browser licensed under Google Chrome Terms of Service. As per Wikipedia (as of February 2023) statistics and trends Google Chrome Browser has a 65.76% usage globally and we…

Docker Desktop is an easy-to-use cross-platform GUI (Graphical User Interface) application used to manage Docker images, containers, and apps from your local computer. It can be utilized either independently or in conjunction with the…

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install local software packages (.DEB) in Debian and its derivatives such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint using three different command line tools and they are dpkg, apt, and gdebi. This is useful to those…

Founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon on 23 April 2006, Spotify is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider. Whether on your computer, your phone, your tablet, and more, Spotify allows you to stream music and…

A package repository (repo in short) is a location where software packages are stored and can be retrieved from. It is organized in a special directory tree, and usually contains an index file and the metadata needed by Linux package…

Brief: In this article, we will explain how to install VirtualBox 7.0 on Debian-based distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint distributions using VirtualBox’s own repository with an apt package manager. VirtualBox is a…

Xfce is a popular lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It is designed to be fast and light on the utilization of system resources such as memory and CPU. In doing so, Xfce provides optimal performance and is…

Linux Mint 21, codenamed “Vanessa”, was officially released on July 31, 2022. Linux Mint 21 is based on Ubuntu 22.04 and will be supported until April 2027. Linux Mint 21 comes in three editions: Cinnamon, MATE, and XFCE. In this guide, we…

If you do not wish to do a fresh Linux Mint 21 Vanessa installation, you can simply upgrade from an earlier version. In this article, we will walk you through the steps to upgrade Linux Mint 20.3 (the latest minor version of the 20.x…