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You can now upgrade Ubuntu to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur Development Version

You can now upgrade Ubuntu to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur Development Version

Hi everyone, Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster got released this past month. Now, development for Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur has started and you can upgrade to its development version right now. If you like to test software and don’t mind bugs and other potential issues, I’ll show you how simple it is to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10. First, you’ll need to open a terminal and type do-release-upgrade -d. The -d option indicates that you want to install a development version: You…

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Installing the RTL8821AU driver in Ubuntu Linux to use our TP-Link T2U Nano AC600 Wireless Adapter

Installing the RTL8821AU driver in Ubuntu Linux to use our TP-Link T2U Nano AC600 Wireless Adapter

Hi everyone, Some years ago, I got the TP-Link T2U Nano Wireless Adapter to replace an internal Wireless Mini-PCI Express adapter that was going bad on a laptop. This adapter has been a good replacement for that laptop and is still working as of this day. That laptop uses Windows. Now, I tried to see if that same adapter would work with Linux. Unfortunately, as of these days, it is not a plug-and-play adapter, and requires the installation of an…

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500GB Samsung SSD 980 Benchmark in the ASUS E210MA laptop using Linux

500GB Samsung SSD 980 Benchmark in the ASUS E210MA laptop using Linux

Hi everyone, Today, we will see a benchmark for the 500GB version of the Samsung SSD 980 NVMe drive in the ASUS E210MA laptop. This SSD is marketed with having a read speed of up to 3,500MB/s and write speeds of up to 3,000MB/s. For this benchmark, we will be using KDiskMark, since this laptop is running Ubuntu Linux. 500GB Samsung SSD 980 Benchmark First, we must select the proper drive in the drive dropdown. Then, we will click on…

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ASUS E210MA Micron G1J38E 64GB eMMC Benchmark in Linux

ASUS E210MA Micron G1J38E 64GB eMMC Benchmark in Linux

Hi everyone, Today, we will see a benchmark for the Micron G1J38E 64GB eMMC drive that can be found in the ASUS E210MA laptop. eMMC drives are normally embedded in budget laptops, paired with a general purpose CPU. However, that does not necessarily mean that the eMMC is slow. While it will not have the same speed as an NVMe SSD, we still benefit from it being a Solid State Disk. For this benchmark, we will be using KDiskMark, as…

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Installing KDiskMark in Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster Development Branch

Installing KDiskMark in Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster Development Branch

Hi everyone, Today, we will learn to install KDiskMark in the Development Branch of Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster. KDiskMark is a Hard Disk Drive and Solid State Disk Benchmarking Utility for Linux. It is a graphically-identical version of CrystalDiskMark for Windows and is an essential piece to test read and write speeds of storage devices. Adding the KDiskMark PPA repository KDiskMark can be installed easily by the use of a PPA repository. We will open a terminal and use the…

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Cloning a 500GB Hard Disk Drive to the Samsung 870 EVO SSD using Linux

Cloning a 500GB Hard Disk Drive to the Samsung 870 EVO SSD using Linux

Hi everyone, In this post, we will be cloning a 500GB Hard Disk Drive to a 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD. For this, we will be using the Linux dd utility, and will confirm some important details using KDE Partition Manager. Before we begin, we must use a SATA to USB enclosure or adapter. I will be using an UGREEN USB 3.0 to SATA enclosure. Let’s begin the preparation: Preparing the Hard Disk Drive and SSD for cloning These are…

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Partitioning the Samsung SSD 980 500GB using gparted

Partitioning the Samsung SSD 980 500GB using gparted

Hi everyone, In this post, we will be partitioning our Samsung SSD 980 500GB using gparted for use in our Linux machine. Before we create a partition in our drive, we must have gparted installed. If you do not have it installed, follow these instructions below to install it. Installing gparted We will be installing gparted in Ubuntu 23.04. To install it, we will use apt. The command to use is sudo apt install gparted: We will approve the installation…

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Updating the WineHQ repository on Ubuntu 22.10 after using the Ubuntu 22.04 WineHQ repository

Updating the WineHQ repository on Ubuntu 22.10 after using the Ubuntu 22.04 WineHQ repository

Hi everyone, I should have written this post some time ago, since Ubuntu 22.10 has been released for a while now, and there is now an official WineHQ 22.10 Kinetic repository. Therefore, in this post, I will show the steps to update the WineHQ repository file from Ubuntu Jammy to Ubuntu Kinetic. The process of updating the apt repository for WineHQ is very simple. We will rename the repository file from jammy to kinetic, use nano as our text editor…

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Adding Proper Audio Support for the HP Stream 8 tablet in the Linux Kernel – My first contribution to the Linux Kernel

Adding Proper Audio Support for the HP Stream 8 tablet in the Linux Kernel – My first contribution to the Linux Kernel

Hi everyone, For several years already, I have owned an HP Stream 7 and HP Stream 8 tablets. These were low budget, Windows 8 tablets powered by an Intel Atom Z3735G Bay Trail processor and having only 1GB of RAM. These tablets are also limited to running the 32bit version of Windows not only because of the extremely low RAM amount by today’s standards, but also because the BIOS only runs 32-bit EFI images. This tablet can be upgraded to…

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Installing Wine from WineHQ in Ubuntu 23.04

Installing Wine from WineHQ in Ubuntu 23.04

Hi everyone, Today, we will be installing Wine from the WineHQ repository in Ubuntu 23.04. Wine is a compatibility layer that allow us to run Windows software on Linux. It is not an emulator nor a virtualization software. It simply translates the binary to Linux-compatible POSIX API call to allow the execution of them. In Windows, Microsoft added the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). There are currently 2 versions: WSL1 and WSL2. WSL1 can be considered the opposite of Wine,…

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