This tutorial will help you protect your data and GNU/Linux filesystem on a battery that is not in 100% health anymore by re-adjusting low battery power warning on Kubuntu. By doing this, your system will show a notification of low battery at your choice for example at 55% is warning and 50% is critical and do something like shutdown automatically if that happens. We wish you the best!
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This tutorial will help you adjust cursor size on Kubuntu KDE. This is useful for people like teachers and those with vision impairments and you can help them by exercising simple procedures below. It is a continuation to our tutorials in same configuration for MATE and GNOME users respectively. Now let's try it out.
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This tutorial will help you install GIMP image editor on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP is an advanced photo retouching free software that works in the same fields to Adobe Photoshop. Below we offer you step by step procedurs to get GIMP running on your Ubuntu machine as well as an alternative method via Snap if you want a development version newer than what you can get with default method. We also included our tutorial series "GIMP for Authors and Beginners" so you can start learning quickly. Lastly, we would love to say thank you The GNU Project and The GIMP Project for developing the best desktop free software we are using for many years today. Now let's start installing it and happy editing!
(GIMP 2.10.36 running on Ubuntu Noble editing its official wallpaper "Monument valley" by orbitelambda with customized left and right panel)
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This tutorial will help you install Ungoogled Chromium web browser on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". Ungoogled Chromium is the free software version of Chrome and its developers offers better privacy by cleaning it out from integrating with Google. This continues our last month's article Librewolf - A Firefox Alternative. Happy installing!
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This tutorial will help you switch search engine from Google to Startpage.com on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". This is a continuation to the previous tutorial Switch to DuckDuckGo to give you more good alternatives. We pick Startpage here because in reality we live with it for many years now, thanks to recommendation from many projects from within our community and we use it even more than DuckDuckGo. We wish the best for Startpage and you. Now let's try it out!
1. Run Firefox.
2. Visit startpage.com
3. Right-click the URL https://startpage.com -> Add "Startpage Search".
4. Click triple line button -> Settings -> Search.
5. Under Default Search Engine, select Startpage.
6. Done.
Now write anything in the address bar or new tab's search and press Enter and you will get search results from Startpage. Happy searching!
7. To revert back to default, repeat 1-5 and select another choice.
This tutorial is based on Firefox. Thus, fortunately this is also applicable to any web browser modified from Firefox including Trisquel Abrowser, GNU Icecat and LibreWolf etc.
You can do a research yourself to find the most privacy-respecting search engine and things related to it through our references below. All links accessed Wednesday 28 August 2024.
Prism Break Project: Search Engine Chapter (*)
Privacy Guides Project: Search Engine Chapter
Privacy Tools IO Project: Search Engine Chapter
Free Software Directory: PRISM Chapter
Search Engine Party: Comparison Table of SEs
Wikipedia: Comparison Table of SEs
(*) They used to recommend Startpage in the past.
What if StartPage.com is blocked in your country? (Read to unblock and enable security for yourself)
Our Recommended Privacy Tools for Ubuntu Users 2017
CryptPad - An Alternative to Google Forms/Docs/Drive with Privacy
Codeberg - An Alternative to GitHub for Programmers without Microsoft
List of Free Software Instant Messenger Applications (Telegram, Signal, etc.)
List of Phone Brands Powered with Free Software
PeerTube Intro for YouTuber Made Easy
This tutorial will help you install GNOME Tweaks on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". Tweaks is a useful utility program to customize Ubuntu desktop such as changing themes, icons, fonts etc. And no surprise it is a good companion to another utility named GNOME Extension Manager. We also want to say thank you John Stowers for developing this precious Free Software. Now let's see how to install and an example in using it!
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This tutorial will help you getting started with the graphical user interface (GUI) of Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". We intend this for beginners who just discovered Ubuntu and GNU/Linux especially those who already have background on Windows or macOS by the goal they can work quickly with Ubuntu. You will learn ten things, including understanding the desktop area and menus, in quick way with exercises you can do on your computer right away. Lastly, we make this as short as possible so you can focus. Now, let's start reading and exercising!
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This article introduces you to Free Software for Android Phones. We listed below a number of applications and games for you who love application hunting so you can recognize, appreciate, use and hopefully later contribute to Free Software projects whos the apps you use everyday. We want to connect between Ubuntu and GNU/Linux to Android and the users alike because we all as a whole is one Free Software Community. We started here with explaining what is free software then Ubuntu Touch then F-Droid and the rest of apps and games we believe you will love to use.
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