How To

It may look intimidating, but the Linux filesystem isn’t a maze of dead ends. Here’s the map that you need to learn more about an OS that runs on computers big and small.

Using a low-cost Chromebook, the Android Steam Link client and a Bluetooth controller we can game in comfort.

Add grep to your Linux toolkit and slice through files, directories and console output to find the details that you need.

Game developers should make built-in benchmarks easy to use, repeatable, and avoid any extra delays. The same goes for launching games in general.

Are you looking to build a PC but intimidated about how to put the parts together? Learn how to turn your components into a desktop with our step-by-step guide.

Explore how to check disk usage using the df and the du commands and learn how a variety of simple arguments can enhance your workflow.

Windows boot drives automatically have an EFI system partition for boot info that's nearly impossible to erase.

Sometimes things go wrong and we have to kill a running process. In this how-to we show you how easy this can be via the terminal.

In this how-to we will look at the find command and a range of additional arguments which will give us a variety of approaches to finding files and directories.

Find your stored Wi-Fi passwords so you can use them on other devices.

Running Linux on your Chromebook used to be fraught with hacks and complications, but now we can easily run a Linux virtual machine alongside Google’s cloud based OS.

In this how-to, we will look at how to work with tar archives via the terminal, including two of the most popular compression methods to squeeze every last byte of space.

Compress files into a ZIP archive using the terminal emulator in Linux.

Write your own scripts to automate the boring / complex tasks of your job.

The Steam Deck comes with SteamOS, which is built on Arch Linux. But you can install Windows 10 or Windows 11 to play games that SteamOS doesn't support to play games on Xbox PC Game Pass.

Use the fzf utility to find content when you don’t have an exact string.

6 storage solutions to keep moisture from ruining your precious stock.

Use the Chmod command to change permissions from the command line.

Copying files and directories using the Linux command line is efficient and can be used while sitting at the machine or when accessing a system remotely.

Using a Raspberry Pi 1, the original from 2012 with different add-on boards in 2022