Dave McKay/How-To Geek Manjaro is a great distribution, and I used it for nearly two years. It’s based on Arch Linux but it doesn’t claim to function just like Arch, which is what I realised I wanted. I found that ...

Jordan Gloor / How-To Geek The Arch Linux AUR repository contains community-driven software that’s safe to use if you take some simple precautions. Even if you don’t understand shell scripting, there are indicators that you can use to judge whether ...

Jordan Gloor / How-To Geek If you’re trapped in a login loop on Ubuntu Linux, use Ctrl+Alt+F3 to open a terminal and check or remove the .Xauthority file. If that doesn’t work, making sure root owns the /tmp folder, reconfiguring ...

Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek To create a new user named “maxn” in Ubuntu, use the command “sudo adduser maxn”. To delete the user and their home directory, you want the “deluser –remove-home maxn” command. You can also add them ...

Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek The Linux command line traces its family tree all the way back to 1969, and it’s still the most efficient way to perform certain tasks. Just make sure you avoid these common mistakes, if you’re ...

Jordan Gloor / How-To Geek The tr command performs transforms on a stream of text, producing a new stream as its output. You can substitute, delete, or convert characters according to rules you set on the command line. Do you ...

Jordan Gloor / How-To Geek If your GRUB shells shows a “grub>” prompt, you can use the ls, set, linux, and initrd commands to fix your Linux system. If instead you see a “grub rescue>” prompt, use set, insmod, linux, ...

Napier Lopez / How-To Geek To fix the “make: command not found” error on Ubuntu Linux, you will need to install make. To install make, run the “sudo apt install make” command or, to install the standard development tools at ...

fatmawati achmad zaenuri/Shutterstock Use the Linux Bash if statement to build conditional expressions with an if then fi structure. Add elif keywords for additional conditional expressions, or the else keyword to define a catch-all section of code that’s executed if no ...

Jordan Gloor / How-To Geek The Flathub app repository is like an “app store” for Linux desktops, filled with both mainstream applications and smaller projects. It’s one of the best places to get new programs for your Linux PC, regardless ...