27
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Is there an alternative of WSL for Ubuntu?
First, it's always going to be a richer and more "real" experience if you try out a distribution on a VM, but ...
With no virtual machine needed. Is there something like that on Linux?
...
20
votes
Is there an alternative of WSL for Ubuntu?
WSL-2 does use "lightweight utility virtual machine (VM)".
You will always need a VM to run different OS.
There is something better known as Multipass if you just need a shell to test ...
19
votes
Accepted
How do I upgrade to Ruby 2.2 on my Ubuntu system?
Why not use ruby 2.3 which is available in the repositories for 16.04 and 17.10 with
sudo apt update
After the update is finished run:
sudo apt-get install ruby2.3 ruby2.3-dev
Or try ruby 2.4 or 2....
15
votes
How can I add my desired editor to the "update-alternatives" interactive menu?
First set your editor to the right path:
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/local/bin/vim 1 && \
sudo update-alternatives --set editor /usr/local/bin/vim
Then ...
10
votes
Are there alternatives to unetbootin?
Startup Disk Creator (Click here to see original version)
Insert a USB stick of appropriate capacity
Open the dash and search for Startup Disk Creator
Select the Startup Disk Creator to launch the ...
9
votes
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How can I add my desired editor to the "update-alternatives" interactive menu?
This is not modified, but the standard Ubuntu behaviour up to Zesty. If you do a ls -l on vim (/usr/bin/vim), you see that it is a link to /etc/alternatives/vim, which in turn links to /usr/bin/vim....
7
votes
Microsoft OneNote alternative?
P3X OneNote
This, in my opinion comes most close to the original. It is simply a native wrapper for one note web app. There is really not much else to it. If you are dedicated one note user and want ...
7
votes
Are there alternatives to unetbootin?
I find using Ubuntu's (and not only) built-in tool, called gnome-disk-utility, to be the most convenient way to make a bootable USB stick.
Open it and from the list on the left side select the device ...
7
votes
How can I add my desired editor to the "update-alternatives" interactive menu?
You can add any new editor and set it as default by using a single command. In this example you would be adding micro editor, located in /usr/bin/micro as an update alternative editor with a priority ...
7
votes
Will Ubuntu be faster than Windows for these given tasks on my machine?
Saying "Ubuntu is faster" makes sense only on machines on which Windows ALREADY proved to be heavy and slow. As all this is relative, the answer should be understood within such limits.
That being ...
7
votes
Is there an alternative of WSL for Ubuntu?
schroot
TL,DR: schroot is a good way to run programs from another Ubuntu version, or another Debian-based distribution, .
You can try out many aspects of another distribution with schroot. This is the ...
6
votes
Best alternative for WinMerge
If you like Winmerge very much and would like to continue to use it in Ubuntu like me, you can do that by using Wine Windows Program loader to install Winmerge and run the program. It runs very well ...
6
votes
Alternative to Dragon NaturallySpeaking?
For an updated answer, here is an article from March 2018: Best Free Linux Speech Recognition Tools – Open Source Software.
This article highlights the best open source speech recognition
software ...
6
votes
How do I make java default to a manually installed JRE/JDK?
Update: as @newur says in comments, just use sdkman
Original answer below
Made another slightly different script to default all java related stuff to a manually installed JDK:
#!/bin/bash
# Run ...
6
votes
What are my options to replace Gnome 3's Nautilus in the least intrusive way?
You can install nemo and thunar without their recommended packages. This won't pull Cinnamon desktop or the XFCE desktop.
sudo apt --no-install-recommends install nemo
Similarly for thunar
sudo apt --...
5
votes
How do I make java default to a manually installed JRE/JDK?
Too complex most of the answers for me.
Initially, Oracle decided to be able to have several versions of Java installed, based on setting some environment variables.
It was easy, but too complex for ...
5
votes
Microsoft OneNote alternative?
Nobody mentioned CherryTree software, which natively runs on Linux. My first impression that this is the most advanced notes taking software on Linux.
Some key features:
Import features from many ...
5
votes
Accepted
Alternatives OBS - Open Broadcaster Software
Solution!
First:
Install FFMPEG
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Second:
Create a file named "obs-fix.sh" containing the following
...
5
votes
youtube-dl appears dead - what can I use to download videos?
The yt-dlp project seems to be what many youtube-dl users and contributors have migrated to.
Since yt-dlp is ultimately a fork of youtube-dl, it is largely a drop-in replacement. For YouTube downloads,...
5
votes
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Is there an alternative of WSL for Ubuntu?
In my opinion, you are looking for GNOME Boxes, which uses the cutting edge virtualization technologies as libvirt, libosinfo and qemu but makes the things easy.
Yes - it provides very limited ...
4
votes
Microsoft OneNote alternative?
Boostnote!
It's very similar to OneNote with the difference, that it allows to store code snippets (colors the syntax etc, recognizes zilions of languages). Additionally you write all notes in the ...
4
votes
How do I make java default to a manually installed JRE/JDK?
You could also use this bash script :
#!/bin/bash
export JDK_INSTALL=/opt/jdk1.8.0_112
#export JDK_INSTALL=/opt/jdk1.7.0_25
#export JDK_INSTALL=/opt/jdk1.6.0_45
#JDK 6 and above
sudo update-...
4
votes
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gsettings like tools for KDE
From https://userbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/Configuration_Files
For scripts or modifying files from the command line, the command line app
kwriteconfig is very useful. kwriteconfig ...
4
votes
Accepted
Qtranslate linux alternatives?
I was also using Qtranslate when i was on Windows and missed it after switching to Linux. So i made a simple application for my own need. Hope it can help you too: https://github.com/yasirtug/ni-...
4
votes
Best Albert alternative for global search
It seems that Albert is still maintained, a new version was released recently: https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert/
3
votes
Is there a way to update all Java related alternatives?
< TL;DR > update-java-alternatives uses the .jinfo file to determine which alternatives to switch across but also expects them to have been configured separately.
Create a new .jinfo file and ...
3
votes
Are there alternatives to software center?
I noticed nobody mentioned gnome-software
It will replace software-center in 16.04, but I quite like software-center itself.
3
votes
How to install Waterfox browser on Ubuntu 12.04?
Waterfox 32 & 64 IS now available for Linux/Ubuntu at https://www.waterfoxproject.org/downloads .
It is available as a compressed archive. I installed it in Linux Mint 18.1 like this:
I d/l'd it ...
3
votes
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Deckset app alternative
You might want to check remark.js.
It's not as easy to use as DeckSet but it does the job pretty well.
2
votes
What application launchers are available for Ubuntu?
Consider Synapse:
Just start typing the program, file or directory you're looking for.
Installation:
sudo apt install synapse
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