This tutorial will help you play MP3 and M4A audio file formats on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". We want you to be able to play them with Free Software only without resorting to proprietary (nonfree) software at all and the requirements are relatively small. Although this tutorial actually serves Rhythmbox Music the default Ubuntu audio player, but as an extra goodness you will find that after this Videos the default Ubuntu video player will be able to play them too. Now let's try it out!

(Rhythmbox 24.04 playing some audio lessons from Everday Conversations by American English in MP3 format)

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Do you know that desktop menu on Kubuntu has several modes? The default one is called "Launcher", and the others are "Menu" and "Dashboard". This tutorial will help you change your application menu ("start menu") mode as you wish and make shortcut icons on Kubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish". This is also applicable to any other versions of Kubuntu as well as other GNU/Linux as long as they use KDE Plasma Desktop. Now let's try it out!

 (Kubuntu 22.04 showing its application menu in classic mode and pointer points to a game in the Games category)

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This tutorial will help you install and get ready for C++ programming on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". We will use the tools GNU G++ as the compiler and Geany IDE as the text editor. Both are free software. Lastly, we also mentioned links to a good C++ tutorial with examples for you at the end of this article. Now, let's start learning!

(Geany showing program-01.cpp, compiling it with g++ at the bottom, and showing the execution result at bottom-right on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat")

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This tutorial will help you adjust sound volume up to 150% on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". You do not need to install additional programs to do this but please remember our advice that it's not a good idea to do this for a long time as it may breaks your speaker or disturbs your ear health. One good idea to do this is when listening to a video which the volume is too low. All in all, now let's try it out!

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 This tutorial will help you install Tor Browser, the anonymity-promising web browser derived from Firefox, on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". We also included below how to update, how to make desktop shortcuts, and even how to contribute back to this amazing Free Software project. Now let's begin and happy surfing!

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 This tutorial will help you install Inkscape Vector Illustrator on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". With this, you can start your creativity and vector drawing jobs on Ubuntu and join the amazing community worldwide. We offer you here both standard and alternative ways and this will make it possible for you to have two different versions running at the same time. Finally, we also mentioned our tutorial series Inkscape for Students for you to start learning right away. Now let's start!

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Amarok comes back to GNU/Linux! After six years of hiatus, it is surely a happy news to us all especially who had experiences with this legendary audio player on the classic Kubuntu and Mandriva before it was discontinued. This article will reintroduce Amarok to newer generations today as well as offer a guide to install it on Kubuntu Jammy up to Noble. Lastly, we want to say thank you very much The Developers for reviving Amarok. Here we go!

(Amarok running on Kubuntu Jammy showing its legendary on-screen display at the top and notification what is playing at bottom playing a playlist of English lesson tracks)

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