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A beginner's guide to playing and managing subtitles with the VLC media player.

The versatile VLC media player allows you to rotate the video orientation as well. Quite handy for watching smartphone recorded videos on desktop.

All you need to know about a virtual machine as an end user, how it works and why you need it.

Thunar is a good file manager by Xfce. You can enhance your experience by using these tweaks and tips.

Learn to create table of contents, table of figures and index of tables in LibreOffice Writer.

The split screen feature in GNOME gives your productivity a tiny boost by saving the time you spend in switching between applications.

You don't need a dedicated PDF editor to add comments and highlight text. Here's how you can use GNOME's Document Viewer to annotate PDFs in Linux.

Firefox has a built-in screenshot utility and you can use it to take screenshots of the entire webpage. Chrome can also do the same.

Learn all about functions in the final chapter of the Bash Basics series.

Become a pro finder with these handy tips to improve your file search experience with GNOME's Nautilus file search.

In the penultimate chapter of the Bash Basics series, learn about for, while and until loops.

Learn the underlying mechanism of the repository system in Ubuntu to better handle the package management and avoid common update errors.

Wondering what are those colors in the ls command output? Where do they come from and how to set it? This article answers it all.

You'll hear the term Compiz in Linux discussions. Get familiar with Compiz in this brief overview.

Tired of flashing USB drives for every ISO? Get started with Ventoy and get the ability to easily boot from ISOs.

If this, then that else something else. Doesn't make sense? It will after you learn about the if-else statements in bash shell scripting.

Don't like the default looks for the Gedit text editor? You can surely try to change the color themes. Here's how to do that.

Here are a few tips and tweaks to save your time by combining the terminal and the file manager in Linux.