Dolphin is the default Kubuntu file manager application. Blue folder icon, positioned beside launcher button on the panel, run fast, simple by default and powerful when needed, that's Dolphin. Just like what we have discussed at the previous episode, Discover Application Store, we will also explain Dolphin in details with screenshots and further references. We hope this helps every Kubuntu users. Now let's start reading!
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Discover is the application store of Kubuntu. Discover is part of KDE Applications and closely related to Plasma. By using Discover, Kubuntu user can show what programs and games are available to choose, view their details, install and remove any of them as well as update the whole system. We introduce Discover to new users to help them getting started and be productive with Kubuntu. You can also find this as a part of our series of Kubuntu Default Applications. Finally, let's start reading!
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Ark (formerly called KZip) is the archive manager application of Kubuntu. Ark is part of KDE (Kool Desktop Environment) which is the technology that builts up the desktop as well as the collection of apps and games of Kubuntu. We introduce Ark here to help new users to Kubuntu getting started with their new computing in GNU/Linux world. Now let's start reading and learning!
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This tutorial will show you how to create desktop shortcuts on Kubuntu. Kubuntu is a computer operating system based on Ubuntu with KDE Plasma Desktop technology. Here we use Kubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" which has been released this year. This covers making normal application shortcuts, as well as file, document and even custom command line ones on desktop area for quick access. Finally, we include examples and easy to follow procedures so you can practice it immediately on your computer. Happy computing with Kubuntu and we wish you success!
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This short tips and tricks tutorial will help you to show system information on Kubuntu. It is important because with this you can view full computer specifications including software information such as OS version as well as hardware information such as whether you CPU, GPU, Wifi, Ethernet, as well as Disk Drives etc. It will show whether your specifications are consisted of, for example Intel Core, NVIDIA Geforce, Qualcomm Atheros, Gigabit Ethernet, Hitachi 1TB HDD or else. We write this based on Kubuntu 24.04 and it is perfectly applicable to any other versions of Kubuntu and even other GNU/Linux distributions. Now let's learn by practice below!
This article will help you configure file association on Kubuntu. File association, also known as "Open With", is the configuration that determines what application opens what file type, such as PDF should be opened with PDF reader, MP3 should be opened by MP3 player and so on. Every system has its own file associations. When you have many applications and choices, you might need to change such association so your favorite file type can be opened by default with your favorite application. We will show you it is easy to do on Kubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish". Now let's start it out!
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Congratulations to Canonical for the release of Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" on Thursday 10 October 2024! We happily welcome the latest, greatest Free/Libre Open Source Software and Technology coming with Ubuntu Oracular! In this listing, we collected the download links, mirrors and torrents as well as checksums of all Official Flavors. We also completed it with links to the Announcements and Release Notes from each official project and we hope you experience the best computing and community with the Ubuntu family.
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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 upgrade the Linux kernel on Ubuntu. The benefit of upgrading kernel is, among many others, to get faster and better hardware performance. In this article, we picked up Kubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish" as example to upgrade the kernel version from its default 5.15 into 6.5. It should be simple and easy to do. Now let's do it.
(Kubuntu 22.04 with the latest Linux kernel version )
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Congratulations to Canonical Ltd. and Free Software community for the release of Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur! It is released on Thursday 12 October 2023 or simply six months after the previous version 23.04 on April. We presented here a compilation of all download links including the Official Flavors, mirrors, and torrents. Let's download and empower our computer, laptop and server with Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster is here! Congratulations to all computer users especially Ubuntu community as Canonical releases Lunar Lobster on Thursday, 20 April 2022. This is a regular release with 9-month support that comes with a lot of new technologies. Continuing the surprise of Ubuntu Unity in the previous release Kinetic Kudu, in this release we are surprised by the official introduction of two flavors Cinnamon, the user friendly interface flagship of the famous Linux Mint, and Edubuntu, the revival of the school-oriented operating system. In this article, you will be able to download Ubuntu 23.04 and all official flavors to later install one into your desktop PC, laptop, and server. Happy downloading!
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This tutorial will explain how to enable two keyboard layouts on Ubuntu GNOME or KDE namely English (US) and Arabic (Buckwalter). The goal is to help you type Arabic on computer by using standard physical QWERTY keyboard without having an Arabic one. Now let's try it.
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This article suggests several traditional things to do after we finished the installation of Kubuntu 22.04 with KDE Plasma 5.24. We have collected for you recommended printers, software applications, games, browser addons, adjustments, widgets and shortcuts to add, and several more. We hope this helps. Happy friendly computing!
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This tutorial will explain in step by step how you can install Kubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish". It will start with requirements, continuing with 10 steps to install, finished with restart and the final result. Let's install it!
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This tutorial will explain how you can turn Ubuntu 22.04 with GNOME Desktop into Kubuntu with KDE Plasma Desktop. This will not remove the original GNOME, but we simply install Plasma Desktop on top of the system so we will have two different desktop environments as the result. Follow it carefully and have a friendly computing with Kubuntu!
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This tutorial explains how a user can search for files and folders on a Kubuntu computer. This tutorial applies to Dolphin, the file manager of Kubuntu, thus also applies to any other systems that use Dolphin like KaOS and openSUSE.
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Kubuntu computer users can make their Google Drive or Nextcloud accessible right from the file manager. This means quick backup and sharing. Now we will learn how to integrate Kubuntu's file manager, Dolphin, with the online storage, Nextcloud, so we can upload and download files right from our Home folders. Let's go!
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