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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Wine – Part 21

Wine (originally an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a free and open-source compatibility layer. Run Windows programs on Linux.

This article walks you through installing VirtualBox. This article is part of our Linux for Starters series, a guide designed for beginners.

In this article, we explore remote desktop on Ubuntu. Access the Windows desktop from Linux using a remote desktop client.

Improve your privacy with these ways of reducing spying and snooping on your daily life. This article is part of the Linux for Starters series.

There is a wide and ever growing range of native Linux games available, but given the range, there are a number of locations where you pick up games.

We explore different desktop environments you can try without installing a different flavour of Ubuntu. There’s KDE, XFCE, MATE, and Budgie.

We investigate how to manage users using both the GUI and the command-line. This article is part of the Linux for Starters Guide.

This article explains ways to keep your system running in tip-top condition.

This article explains the fundamentals of manipulating files from the shell. We explore cp, mv, rm and mkdir using Ubuntu 21.04.

Ubuntu has a very different file system compared to Windows. It’s organized in a completely different way designed to offer more security.