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 […]
Ever since I started learning Vim, I’ve been using escape more than ever. With Vim, you are constantly hitting escape when switching between modes and that means you have to stretch over to the escape key. Although it isn’t a lot of work, when you are constantly doing it for […]
There are many sites where people often wish to download MP3s from YouTube however they are left with a compressed mess which not only sounds bad but it simply isn’t worth the hassle when there are services like Spotify. I came across a tool called `youtube-dl` which at first, looked […]
By default, Windows 10 compresses your wallpaper which results in picture quality loss. In this tutorial, you will successfully disable wallpaper compression for good. Use the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command. Type regedit, and click OK to open the registry. Browse to the following […]