Linux

I have used Fedora since early 2000s but moved to Arch Linux 2 years ago and I think Arch Linux could be a very good first Linux OS.

#arch #fedora

It is always nice to have a calendar in your terminal that you can access very quickly. There is a command/utility called cal.

#cal #Calendar

Finally after a long time I gathered courage to setup CUPS to print from my Arch Linux install.

#cups #avahi

There is a nice utility called scanimage which comes with sane. You can scan documents terminal and it works nicely.

#sane #scanimage

I am sure once in your life you had to convert a PDF file from colour to black and white, right? There is a very simple way of doing it using Ghostscript.

#ghostscript

Why pay anyone to consolidate or combine your pdf files? You can do it yourself with this simple command. It comes with poppler.

sudo pacman -S poppler

#pdfunite

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Trying to free up space on your server?

#linux #journal

Thinking of switching to Linux but not sure what apps you need? Let me share the list of my GUI and terminal based apps and utilities I use.

#mylinuxapps

If you have limited hard disk space like me then understanding what directories and files consume the most space is very important. You just need one command to do that easily in Linux.

#linux #diskusage

My computer's time was 2 minutes ahead of the actual time, so I fixed it by running "timedatectl set-ntp true"

#linux #arch #timedatectl