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Jaw dropping windows effects for Gnome | Linux

LinuxH2O — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:15:32 +0000

If you're looking for a way to make your Linux desktop look more unique and stylish, then you need to check out the Burn My Windows extension for Gnome. This extension adds incredible Windows-style effects to your desktop, making it look like you're using something amazing.

Here's a sneak peek of what you can expect from this tiny peace of software:

What is good and okay about it?

Good part

Animated window opening and closing: When you open or close an application, it will animate in or out of view.

Okay part

Animated window minimization and maximization: When you minimize or maximize a window, it will not animate in or out of view, this is because of the how the extension is build. So if you need some animation to that part then you can try out some other extension that are available. However, they won't be as fancy as this one.

These effects are not only visually stunning, but they also make your desktop feel more responsive and fluid. If you're looking for a way to make your Linux desktop look and feel more like a unique desktop environment, then you need to check out the Burn My Windows extension.

So, How to get it?

To install Burn My Windows, you'll need to have the extensions support in your Gnome desktop environment and extension management tool. For this you can check out these two guides on YouTube.

Once you have the above two things done, you can navigate to the extension page and install it in your system. It is pretty easy to do that, just open the below page and click on the toggle button.

Burn My Windows

After going so, use the extension management app to open the installed extensions list and click on the enable toggle button on the right side of Burn My Windows extension. This will enable the effects on your Linux system.

Finally, you can click on the settings button below the extension name to see the list of all available effect and you can preview and enable any one of theme. Also, in this settings dialog, you can change the animation speed, the animation particles, colors, and the other configurations of the effects.

Note: This extension has around 20 effects.

Complete video guide

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World-famous GTK themes for Linux

LinuxH2O — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 04:50:46 +0000

Have you ever wondered about the most popular GTK themes for Linux? The themes, that are famous around the world. The themes that people use no matter where they live. Users can be from India, The United States, Russia, Brazil, France, Spain, Japan, or from some other country.

So don’t you wanna know what are the famous Linux GTK themes among them?

To answer that curiosity, I have written this article. Below you will find the top 5 GTK themes for Linux which are being used by users around the earth. So let’s get started!

1. WhiteSur GTK Theme
Like many other themes, the WhiteSur GTK theme is inspired by macOS. As we all know Apple does the design better than anyone else. This theme is based on macOS Big Sur. It takes inspiration from it and tries to convert the design system to Linux GTK based applications. I have tried WhiteSur on a Gnome desktop and it looks fabulous.

I’m not that much of an apple fan but the look you get is just amazing. It will make people believe that you are on a mac. I don’t prefer the apple icons on Linux though, they feel odd.

The developers update the theme very often to keep up with the modern design and fixes.

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2. Nordic GTK Theme
The Nordic theme has its own glow to it. The GTK theme usages the Nord color palette which gives it a dark gray look. When you use your computer it provides a matte finish to it.

Apart from that, the colors are eye comforting so if you’re someone who usages the computer for a long period of time then this theme can be a good choice.
The theme is also updated to support both GTK 3.0 and GTK 4.0. You can get it from the links below.

[Download Link Below]

3. Sweet GTK Theme
Sweet is a GTK gradient candy. You will love the color contrast and darkish combinations with a rainbow-like finish. This theme is inspired by space and planets which you will notice in the naming as well.

Sweet comes with many options, light, dark, and even with different accent colors. These are the options but you can go with any one of them they all are gorgeous.

[Download Link Below]

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World-famous GTK themes for Linux

🎦 You can also watch the video guide on Youtube to get actual themes demonstration.

Disclaimer
I have used a fairly popular metric for the themes and it is the number of downloads the listed GTK themes get on the gnome-looks. The list doesn't follow any order whatsoever, just look around the themes and pick one for your Linux distribution.

Most essential apps for every Linux user | 2020

LinuxH2O — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 03:23:10 +0000

When you first install a Linux distro or do a fresh install, you need to install the essential apps for regular use. That is why I have prepared a quick guide list of the essential apps for every Linux user. So that you can check and go through the installation easily and get the needed apps for your better use and workflow.

Note: Before you start, let me clarify something here. The apps listed below work seamlessly on every Linux distribution so it doesn’t matter whether you are using Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary OS, MX Linux, Debian, Manjaro, Deepin, Zorin, or any other that you prefer. However, there are some tools that are built for specific desktop environments such as Gnome Tweaks that works better with the Gnome desktop environment.

All the applications are divided into these sections:

Basic essential applications for Linux
Messaging applications for Linux
Productivity applications for the distro
Utility application for Linux
Gaming on Linux
Cloud syncing applications
Finally, work-specific applications

Having the above note in mind, now let’s start – what I like to call the app show!

Basic essential applications for Linux

1. Internet Browsers

Most of nowadays spend a lot of time surfing the web therefore, having a suitable browser is very helpful. We have so many options to choose from:

Chromium or Google chrome – People’s favorite.
Firefox – Open source, privacy-respecting, and a performance beast.
Opera – Sidebar apps, cool design, inbuild VPN & adBlocker, and mobile my flow.
Vivaldi – Multi-tab, huge customizations, mouse gestures, commands, and note-taking app.
Midori – Open source and lightweight.
Brave - A very privacy-conscious web browser

2. Music Players

Everyone loves music that is why here are some of the considerations for a music player for Linux.

Rhythmbox – Lightweight, FM, Podcast, plugin support.
Spotify – Online cloud-based music steaming application, multi-device support.
Tauon Music Box - A modern music player with internet features

3. Video Players

Videos have become a regular part of our day to day life. Therefore, have a video player that supports all the features is a must.

VLC – Open source, all codecs support, 3D support, converter.
SMPlayer – Similar to VLC.
MVP - A minimal but great player

4. Download Managers

If you browse the internet a lot then you must download the stuff as well. Whether attachments, files from the web, or torrent.

XDM – Very similar to IDM with extra features.
uGet – A regular download manager.
Deluge – Best torrent client – simple & sweet.
Webtorrent – For streaming audio and videos directly from torrent.

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If you like to watch the youtube video with visuals of these apps.

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Hyper - A modern terminal emulator for Linux

LinuxH2O — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 02:32:27 +0000

In this quick guide, I will review a modern-looking terminal emulator for Linux. Hyper is minimal and it supports a bunch of features that you will end up loving it.

‣ Get it from here!
‣ Hyper.is

Update:
Fortunately, the Hyper config file as an option to set a custom shell. Unfortunately, when I set the bash shell path it doesn't recognize it. I have to execute bash in the terminal to load it up.

Let me know if anyone has any solution.

Best 5 Linux-based laptops you can buy | 2020

LinuxH2O — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:37:40 +0000

In this buying guide, you will get to know about the best 5 Linux-based laptops that are available in the market right now.

Linux is growing day=by-day and many users are shifting towards it. This has led to the popularity of many companies that specifically sell Linux-based laptops.

Apart from that many big companies like Dell, Lenovo, HP, Huawei, etc are providing Linux alternatives to their customers. Here is my list of the top Linux-based laptops that you can buy right now.

1. Tuxedo Pulse 15

Tuxedo is a German company that is famous for making high-end Linux based computers. The Tuxedo Pulse is a very popular laptop that the company makes.

2. System76 Lemur Pro

The System76 by far the most popular Linux computer maker as they have the goodwill for really awesome hardware and software. The company has done a good job of making a Linux distribution and custom coreboot.

3. Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition

This is by far the very popular development laptop out there as the company. Dell is continuing to make Linux compatible laptops.

4. KDE Slimbook 3 (3rd Gen)

KDE has a big fan-base and these guys have built a Linux slimbook. It’s a powerhouse.

5. Librem 14 – Laptop with the kill switches

World-famous company for privacy-conscious products and services. This is by far the most secure available laptop out there. I mean, it has hardware kill-switches.

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TLDR – Makes it easier to understand man pages on Linux

LinuxH2O — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 10:48:25 +0000

In this article, you will learn about an amazing tool called TLDR and how to install and use it on Linux distributions.

Linux has a built-in man utility tool. It is an interface to the reference manuals (Documentation). That means if you do not understand something like how a command or a function works then you can query for its man reference page to learn about it.

However, these pages can be long and confusing (especially for beginners) which eventually discourse you to read them.

Introducing TLDR, a tool that makes it easier to understand man pages in UNIX-Like systems such as Linux. It’s the same as man pages but very concise and has examples for different use cases.

To give a little context here, let me compare it with an example.

A man page for ‘ls’ command.

An example is very long. So listed here!

Example
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And here is the same TLDR page for ‘ls’.

ls
List directory contents.

 - List files one per line:
   ls -1

 - List all files, including hidden files:
   ls -a

 - List all files, with trailing / added to directory names:
   ls -F

 - Long format list (permissions, ownership, size and modification date) of all files:
   ls -la

 - Long format list with size displayed using human readable units (KB, MB, GB):
   ls -lh

 - Long format list sorted by size (descending):
   ls -lS

 - Long format list of all files, sorted by modification date (oldest first):
   ls -ltr

Getting TLDR tool in your Linux distribution

TLDR can be installed in various ways. Here are a few of them that you can use to get it in your Linux distribution.

Installing using the ‘npm’

The ‘npm’ is the Node package manager. In order to use it, you have to have it in your system. It can be easily installed using the installation command.

For Debian/Ubuntu or any of their derivatives.

sudo apt install nodejs npm -y

For RedHat, Fedora or CentOS

sudo dnf install nodejs npm

Learn more about apt: Complete apt package manager guide for Linux
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Similarly, you can use the installation command for your distribution if you are using any other one like Manjaro, OpenSUSE, etc.

Verify the installation using the version command.

npm -v

Result should be a number something like this.

v6.13.7

After having ‘npm’ installed, you can use its installation command to get the latest version of the ‘TLDF’ tool. For this use this command.

sudo npm install -g tldr

Now run the version command for ‘TLDR’ as well.

tldr --version

You should see a number in the output. If you are getting a ‘not found or not located error’ then you have to create a symbolic link. Use this command to do that.

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/tldr /usr/bin/tldr

Finally, you should be able to use the ‘TLDR’ in your Linux distribution.

Watch Video guide on YouTube

Additionally, You can also watch a step-by-step video guide on YouTube to get a better understanding of it.

Conclusion

So that is how you install and use ‘TLDR’ on Linux. Let me know what you think about it in the comments and subscribe to the LinuxH2O Youtube channel. Till then, keep enjoying Linux.

Linux themes update – September 2020

LinuxH2O — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 02:53:42 +0000

Hello there and welcome to LinuxH2O. I’m continuing on the themes update for the month. It’s September 2020 now so let’s see what the Linux community has to offer us.

This month we have a total of 6 themes for you.

Three GTK+ themes
Two icon theme packs
One cursor theme pack
One GRUB bootloader theme

So you can see it’s full of 360° customization for your favorite Linux distribution. Now lets into the updates.

New GTK+ themes for Linux

As you know, we have got three newly trending GTK+ themes for Linux this month. Here is the list of the themes.

1. Juno theme

Juno is a clean looking dark theme for Linux. It is inspired by the epic VSCode theme. It comes with many dark color pallets like Juno ocean, Juno palenight, and Juno mirage.

Here are the things that are included in the theme:

GTK+ support
Gnome shell theme
XFCE support
Color pallets option
Different folder assets

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