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Linux & Open Source

Your ASUS laptop is either too loud or too hot on Linux Mint 21. The fans spin at full speed while you…

October 21, 2026

The Acer Nitro 5 is a popular gaming laptop, but on Ubuntu it often runs the desktop and games on the weak…

October 21, 2026

Your laptop has a powerful NVIDIA graphics card, but your game runs at 18 frames per second like it is using a…

October 21, 2026

Buying a Windows game for Linux without checking first can waste money. A game might look perfect on its Steam store page…

October 21, 2026

Many Windows games will not start on Linux with the default settings. The game window may flash and close, or Steam may…

October 21, 2026

You try to install Steam on Ubuntu, and instead of a game library you get a wall of red text about unmet…

October 21, 2026

Ubuntu 24.04 installs Firefox as a snap by default, and even running the normal install command for Firefox quietly redirects you to…

October 21, 2026

You click the Firefox icon, wait, and wait some more. Twenty or thirty seconds pass before the window finally appears, yet after…

October 21, 2026

After upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04, many people click the App Center icon — the new home of the Snap Store — and…

October 21, 2026

Few Ubuntu messages are more annoying than opening Software Updater and seeing a warning that it failed to download repository information. Your…

October 21, 2026