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No remote ref found similar to xyz is a common issue with Flatpak. Here's why you see this error and the steps you can take to fix this issue.

Many Linux desktop users tend to forget to update the Flatpak packages as they are not included in the regular system updates. Here's how to update them.

In the first quarter of 2019, Microsoft open sourced the Windows Calculator. Being open source, it allows developers to use

Love Firefox? You'll love it even more if you start using these awesome features in Firefox and make your browsing experience even more awesome.

One of the lesser-known features of Flatpak packaging is that it allows you to downgrade installed applications. Here's how to use it.

KDE Plasma 5.20 is finally here and there’s a lot of things to be excited about, including the

It is a no-brainer that Apache OpenOffice is still a relevant recommendation when we think about open source alternatives

If you are stuck to the Linux terminal, say on a server, how do you download a file from the terminal? Here are some commands to download files and webpages.

Flatpak applications don't play along well with system themes because of their sandbox nature. With a little effort, you can make them work with system themes.

Brief: MellowPlayer is a free and open-source desktop that lets you integrate web-based music streaming services on Linux

If you love using Flatpak applications, here are a few tips, tools, and tweaks to make your Flatpak experience better and smoother.

In this chapter of the Linux Jargon Buster, you’ll learn about display manager in Linux. Is it part of the desktop environment? What does it do?

So, you just did a fresh installation of Manjaro Linux. Now what? Here are a few essential post installation steps

This tutorial shows you the proper steps to install the Deepin desktop environment on Ubuntu. Removal steps are also mentioned.

Learn what apt cache is, why it is used, why you would want to clean it and some other things you should know about purging apt cache.

Brief: An interesting text editor that supports R markdown. With codes in R, you can add string interpolation, graphs and

Learn about packaging system and package managers in Linux. You'll learn how do they work and what kind of package managers available.

Getting a warning that the boot partition has no space left? Here are some ways you can free up space on the boot partition in Ubuntu Linux.

Brief: Bagisto is a relatively new open-source eCommerce platform built on Laravel. Let’s see what it has got

Presentations are often boring. This is why some people add animation or comics/meme to add some humor and style

Drawing is a basic image editor like Microsoft Paint. With this open source application, you can draw arrows, lines, geometrical shapes, add colors and other stuff you expect to do in a regular drawing application.

Firefox is popular among Linux users. It is the default web browser on several Linux distributions. Among many other features,

In this part of Linux jargon buster, learn about the FOSS principles. Learn what is FOSS, what is open source and why you should care about it.

Brief: Looking to deploy a static web-page? No need to fiddle with HTML and CSS. These open source static