Ubuntu For Everyone

Everyone Says Linux Can't Play Games A common myth is that Linux and Mac cannot play games. This myth prevents some people from eve...

What Has Been Going On? I have been very busy with school and life and have not been able to give this blog anywhere near the attention ...

Aren't I Already Protected? Im not talking about viruses in this post. Not even Ubuntu is safe from government surveillance. You ...

What Is It? A repository is a collection of packages that you can access and install to your Ubuntu system via the Ubuntu Software Ce...

How Do I Do It? The Java implementation I use is OpenJDK because its fast and it is in the repositories. I actually find that Java ap...

What Does That Even Mean? Linux has script files as well as executable program files that are meant to be marked as executable but someti...

How Do I Do It? If your reading this you know that gParted is the best GUI disk management tool for any Linux distribution. I use it ...

Why Do It Myself? When you build your own computer you save a ton of money. A $800 computer could be $2000 with manufacturer markup, ...

What Does That Even Mean? The file structure of an operating system is how everything is arranged and organized. For example in Windo...

Do You Need An AV On Ubuntu? In Ubuntu you do not need to worry about many of the threats you would have to worry about on Windows, b...

What Do You Mean? In Ubuntu you can change the DPI of your screen, making everything smaller and therefore cramming more information ...

What Is The Torrent Application? The torrent application shipped with Ubuntu is Transmission. It works well with all your .torrent fi...

How Do I Do It? In Ubuntu you will automatically be notified of updates with a popup of the Software Updater. If that doesn't hap...

What Do You Mean? Ubuntu has a huge variety of music players aside from the bundled Rhythmbox. Some other popular ones are Banshee, Cleme...

What Do You Mean? There comes a time in every computer users life where their computer is running slow and they don't know why, t...

What Is It? GIMP is basically an open source equivalent to Photoshop, and is just as good, if not better. It used to be included wi...

What Do You Mean I Want Them? Restricted Extras are applications and plugins that are not open-source, but still commonly used. Restr...

What is it? Basically Play on Linux is a front-end for Wine making it easier to use and configure while still retaining all its features....

What Changes? Whatever your reason for doing it, you can change the language of your entire system in a few minutes. This will change eve...

Whats the Difference? Dual booting is running Ubuntu alongside Windows on your hard drive. You select which operating system to use upon ...

5 Reasons Ubuntu is Better Than Windows 1. Speed Ubuntu is faster than Windows on the same hardware. Especially with a lightweight ...