linux - GadgeteerZA

Absolute Essentials You Need to Know to Survive Vi Editor

2024-12-262024-12-26 Danie

The image shows a computer screen displaying a VIM editor. The foreground is dominated by text providing information about VIM, its version, and a plea to help children in Uganda. The background consists of a dark-colored theme with a simple menu bar at the top, showing standard options like 'New Tab', 'Split View', 'Copy', and 'Paste'. The overall setting appears to be a text-based interface, typical of a Linux or Unix-like operating system.

The most common question most people ask about the vi editor is: How do I exit vi? The joke answer goes: “You don’t. You learn to live with it.” but the serious answer is to […]

How to Install Arch Linux: A Beginner’s Practical Guide

2024-12-172024-12-17 Danie

The image is a stylized graphic design, likely promoting Arch Linux. The foreground features a bold, black and white silhouette of a woman with short hair, giving a modern and edgy feel. Her age seems to be in her late twenties or early thirties. She is wearing a t-shirt with 'Arch' subtly visible near the bottom. The background showcases a vibrant blue and grey colour scheme with the text 'Arch Linux Install Made Easy' overlaid, set in a bold and dynamic typeface. The overall aesthetic is reminiscent of street art or graphic novel style.

Installing Arch Linux has always been a little more daunting for newer users. This is partly because it offers a little less wizard guidance, and also partly because you want to be super careful, especially […]

KDE is Making its Own Distro, and So is GNOME

2024-12-052024-12-05 Danie

The image shows a computer screen displaying the system settings of what seems to be a KDE Plasma desktop environment. In the foreground, various system settings options are visible, including input & output, display & monitor, and connected devices. The background features a cartoonish landscape with soft, pastel colors. The main focus is on the system settings menus, with file manager windows showing in the center. There is also a small 'Apply' button at the bottom, which suggests some configuration changes have been made.

KDE’s distro won’t be the same as their KDE Neon (which is Ubuntu based) but it is uncertain whether the new one will replace KDE Neon (I think not because of the differences). What is […]

DistroSea.com: a website that lets you run and test 60+ Linux distributions straight from your web browser

2024-12-022024-12-02 Danie

A browser showing the URL distrosea.com. In the shown tab is a full version of Ubuntu with its dock icons down the left-hand side. Two icons can be seen on the home screen called Install Ubuntu 24.04LTS and a Home icon.

No need for any installation or even creating a live bootable medium. DistroSea uses virtual machine (VM) technology to allow multiple operating systems (distros, in this case) to run on a single host system. Each […]

Latest Piper app has built-in support for the Logitech G502 X mouse

2024-12-012024-12-01 Danie

Graphical view of a Logitech G502 X mouse from above showing the numbers for each different button.

It was not so much that the mouse was not supported, but it was not displaying the graphic properly and showing all the buttons for remapping. It now looks like it is all working 100% […]

Ubuntu Linux works pretty well on a 2014 MacBook Air

2024-12-012024-12-01 Danie

A graphic showing a MacBook Air with feet protruding below it, and arms on the sides. Over the arms can be seen a red cape. The feet are standing on what looks like a mountain peak covered in grass.

I also have a 2014 MacBook Air, except mine still has its original battery in, and works perfectly. But this is a great idea as there are no longer macOS updates for these old devices. […]

Using Linux File Manager Right-Click Menus to Quickly run Scripts

2024-11-262024-11-26 Danie

Teal colour background with title in white saying: right-click scripts dolphin and nautilus on Linux. To the right is an image showing a video icon which has been right-clicked on, and a drop-down menu shows with some options.

This video will show how to link any bash script file to a right-click menu on Linux, by creating a .desktop file. I’m using it to select a few .mp4 video files, and then to […]

Not Sure What a Linux Command Will Do to Your System? Ask ChatGPT or Google Gemini

2024-11-242024-11-24 Danie

Several Linux terminal screens shown stacked behind each other. The front most one has run the ls command to list a directory contents.

You’ve likely heard you should never run a command or script that you don’t fully understand in the Linux terminal (or any command line). Unfortunately, the syntax for command-line apps can be tricky to break […]

Beginner’s Guide to Install and Use Conky in any Linux distro

2024-11-212024-11-21 Danie

A desktop background showing various system stats such as CPU details, hard drive details, a time clock and date, a short calendar excerpt, etc.

Conky is a lightweight system monitor available on Linux and BSD. It can display the system information and statistics such as CPU consumption, disk usage, RAM utilization, network speed, etc. in an elegant way. All […]

BoxBuddy – graphical manager for Distrobox

2024-10-242024-10-24 Danie

Window with title BoxBuddy. On the left is a list of various Linux distros installed such as arch, ubuntu, etc. In the centre are options listed for Open terminal, Upgrade box, View applications, Clone box, and delete box.

Distrobox is software which creates and manages container-based development environments without root privileges. It lets you run a wide range of Linux distributions on a single host system. It’s not reinventing the wheel. Distrobox is […]

Tag: linux