GNOME is one of the most loved/hated desktop environment. Its history starts a long time ago and its community is incredibly big: GNOME is one of the most modern DE but due to features and poor optimization, it has often given the fast experience of lighter DEs like LXDE, Mate, or XFCE. Those DEs made the system much more responsive[…]
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AMD-nix desktop and wallpaper
As readers of this site/blog know well, I am passionate about everything related to the customization of operating systems and, in particular, of desktop and Linux environments. So as a great user of the related groups on Reddit, r/unixporn on all, sometimes, I also enjoy posting some shots of my experiments. The latest is AMD-nix on r/desktops, in clear response[…]
Read moreHow to fix the “token” parameter not in video info for unknown reason error
If the ‘token parameter’ issue has occurred using youtube-dl on Linux, you’re probably using an outdated version of the command. Here how to fix it under Fedora and Ubuntu. You have tried to download video or audio from Youtube through the youtube-dl command and you got the following result: [youtube] 1234567890A: Downloading webpage [youtube] 1234567890A: Downloading video info webpage ERROR:[…]
Read moreHow to upgrade to Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’
‘Disco Dingo’ is the code name for Ubuntu 19.04, the next scheduled release for Canonical operating system. Following Ubuntu’s usual naming standard, the letter for the name of the upcoming release is the ‘D’, from here the nickname ‘Disco Dingo’. Ubuntu 19.04, a new release full of interesting news Canonical publishes new releases of Ubuntu on a regular cadence, enabling[…]
Read moreHow to manually add a PPA repository to minimal Ubuntu Linux
The Personal Package Archives make it easy to install new software because they are software repositories specifically designed for each version of Ubuntu. Using PPA is one of the easiest way to install software on a Ubuntu distribution and adding a PPA is quite simple. Usually, you can add a PPA through the add-apt-repository command. On GUI systems, you have[…]
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