Recently, I was required to use MATLAB for a range of tasks and assignments but I wanted to install it on Linux. Thankfully, MATLAB works on Linux quite well and it even officially supports Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE and RHEL. As for Fedora, it installs MATLAB without any problems however it […]
In this article, I share with you a cool program which displays the network connections. I was looking for something which offered the same type of view as TinyWall‘s “Show Connections” tab (a firewall for Windows). I didn’t want to load up Wireshark as it’s overkill just for some basic […]
Upon reading an article on OMG! Ubuntu! about GNOME’s plan to bring the app menu back inside the window, it appears that many users aren’t aware that this option has been available for quite some time in GNOME Tweaks. If you want to move the GNOME App Menu inside the […]
Recently, I’ve been playing around with different shells such as zsh, bash and fish and I’ve settled on the default bash shell. For those of you who aren’t aware, BASH or GNU BASH is a UNIX shell command language. It has been around for more than 28 years and it […]
As tekbyte grows in popularity (at least that is what I tell myself), I’ve decided to host an IRC channel on freenode. Although tekbyte isn’t popular at the time of writing this article, I’m certain it will be in the future. The IRC channel: #tekbyte
Visual Studio Code over the past few years has risen in popularity and many programmers that are after an IDE are now using it. I won’t be reviewing Visual Studio Code in this article but rather showing how you can install Visual Studio Code on Fedora and have it update […]
Firefox Quantum has addressed many performance issues that were present in the earlier versions. Unfortunately, Firefox 57 (Quantum) has been problematic for some and doesn’t offer the performance it claims in some cases. I’m referring to the responsiveness of the browser such as switching between tabs – I’ve also fixed […]
Whether you have owned a Broadcom wireless card or not, you must have heard of people hating them due to their poor compatibility with most Linux distributions. Fedora in this regard is the most problematic when it comes to these drivers but for good reason. Fedora has strict rules when […]
XFCE is an amazing desktop environment period. Not only does it stay out of the way by being lightweight and robust, but it also can be customised beyond recognition. Unfortunately, there is currently one issue with XFCE and that is screen tearing which can only be fixed with using compton […]
Whether you like it or not, it is sometimes handy to have terminal applications which not only look good but they also come handy when there is no desktop environment or compositor running. There are a handful of IRC clients which are worth using and they all offer a myriad […]