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You can use a couple of commands and smash them together to make a command that monitors your wireless connection. This is a pretty simple operation, so it's a pretty simple article. https://linux-tips.us/easily-monitor-your-wireless-connection/ After all these years, it still amuses me to see...

You can do a great deal with the find command and this time we specify that we want to find files and then use that output to count the number of files in a directory. It's not complicated, but is a good way to use commands you already have to accomplish your goals...

I realized I'd never covered 'uname'. So, I covered uname. It's a handy way to get some system information. https://linux-tips.us/get-system-information-with-the-uname-command-in-linux/ It's not all that complicated.

I've covered hardinfo in the past and pointed out that it's old. Well, a group of people have rebooted hardinfo as hardinfo2. They contacted me to ask me to cover this and I decided I would. It's a great application. https://linux-tips.us/hardinfo-has-been-rebooted-as-hardinfo2/ We'll have to...

It's easy enough to count the number of processes that are running but you can also count the processes running on a per-user basis. It's not difficult, just a couple of commands crammed together. https://linux-tips.us/count-the-number-of-running-processes-per-user/ This is one that even a new...

I wrote the first group's article so that I could continue on the theme. So, today you get a (very) short article about finding out which groups you belong to. You can also find out that information for other users, of course. Either way, it's a quick and easy article. It got caught in the...

This is just a quick article showing you how to list the various groups you have on your system. If you don't know what groups are, I do my best to explain in simple terms. https://linux-tips.us/list-all-the-groups-in-linux/ I almost forgot to share. Oops...

Most of you will have no good reasons to clear your DNS cache. But, when you do need to know how to do so there's an article that'll help you out with that. https://linux-tips.us/how-to-clear-the-dns-cache/ It's not something you're really going to need to know how to do - unless you need to...

I have said this before. I am not a zealot. I am not a Linux zealot. At the end of the day, I use Linux because I prefer it. I don't care all that much about the software licenses I use. I use proprietary software - and so do you. You're using proprietary software right now. Anyhow, it is my...

You can safely skip this one: https://linux-tips.us/meta-the-state-of-linux-tips-23/ You will not learn anything of value, at least I don't think you will.

It's just a simple cat command to let you know if you're using a spinning rust storage device or a new-fangled SSD. https://linux-tips.us/is-your-storage-drive-an-ssd-or-an-hdd/ It will not tell you if your SSD is an NVMe. There are other tools for that.

If you're using a desktop Linux, you almost certainly already have a GUI system resource monitor. Well, that's okay. There are more of them out there and you have a choice. In fact, there are all sorts of system monitors - including CLI system resource monitors. Well, today I show you a new...

I just wanted to cover the 'halt' command. So, I did. There isn't much to it. So, it's intentionally short. I could have made is longer but I didn't see a reason to do so. https://linux-tips.us/short-the-halt-command/ Enjoy! Also, don't halt your computer unless you really want to.

The codename is Oracular Oriole and development has already begun: https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/454/builds In reality, there won't be a lot of work as the testers/builders take a couple of weeks to unwind. But, there's a codename and some seed files for the flavors to work...

I have covered some Flatpak stuff, but I had only covered installing Flatpak in Lubuntu. Sure, those commands work for other distros, but now I've covered the subject more deeply and have even enlisted the aid of AI. (AI and I co-wrote this article.)...

I simply covered a basic command, that is the shutdown command. I also explained how to use it to reboot and to halt the system, as well as how to schedule it. There's still more to the command, but those seem like things you're unlikely to use on a regular basis. Most folks are just going to...

Today's article is an invitation to look into Codemonkey. It's going to look quite different when compared to a normal article. https://linux-tips.us/setting-up-coding-environments-on-linux-for-educational-use/ So... Yeah, it's an article!

There are many tools for learning about your hardware. One we use here a great deal is 'inxi'. However, this is a very basic Linux task so there will be countless ways to do this. One of the ways we don't discuss often is a tool known as hwinfo. I've actually sort of covered it before, but that...

If you use Lubuntu, you might want to know how to install Wine. You really only need Wine if you want to use Windows software, so there's that. I came across this in my notes and checked to see if the instructions were still the same for current times by testing the installation in a VM. The...

If you're going to use Python packages installed by PIP, you should keep them updated. It's a simple enough process. It's a simple enough article. https://linux-tips.us/update-python-packages-pip/ PIP is pretty neat stuff.