How to Install Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) You just installed Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The desktop is clean. GNOME 50 looks gorgeous. But there’s one thing missing—your code editor. And let’s be honest, while GNOME Text Editor (formerly gedit) works for quick notes, you’re going to want something with real IntelliSense,... » read more

How to Install Claude Code on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Ever found yourself staring at a terminal, wondering how an AI agent could just live in your project directory—reading your code, running your tests, pushing commits? That’s Claude Code, Anthropic’s official CLI tool that brings Claude directly into your terminal. It’s not a web... » read more

Minecraft: Linux and You’re Done To be honest, the fact that Minecraft is playable at all is half a miracle in the Linux gaming ecosystem. Mojang has never officially supported Linux. But thanks to the community and Microsoft’s “don’t block it” policy, the Java Edition actually runs better on Linux than on Windows — no... » read more

Hollow Knight: Silksong — After All These Years, It’s Finally Here If you’ve played Hollow Knight, you’ve probably been waiting for Silksong for years. Announced in 2019, delayed multiple times, but finally got a playable Linux port at the end of 2025. It’s not an official Team Cherry release — but it’s playable. Basic Info... » read more

DELTARUNE: Toby Fox’s Another Masterpiece If you know Undertale, you definitely know Toby Fox. DELTARUNE is his latest masterpiece following Undertale — strictly speaking, not a sequel, but a story from a “different timeline.” Basic Info Item Details Game DELTARUNE Developer Toby Fox Genre RPG / Story-driven / Pixel Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1671210/ Website https://deltarune.com/ Why Play... » read more

Star of Providence: Pixel Bullet Hell Star of Providence (formerly Monolith) is a pixel-art bullet hell Roguelite, inspired by The Binding of Isaac and Enter the Gungeon. Basic Info Item Details Game Star of Providence Genre Bullet Hell / Roguelite / Pixel Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1404690/ Native Linux ✅ Supported Native Linux Experience Star of Providence has... » read more

5D Chess: Throwing Chess Into the Multiverse 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel combines chess with time travel, giving birth to what might be the most complex board game ever invented by humanity. Basic Info Item Details Game 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel Genre Strategy / Chess Variant Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1346230/ Native Linux ✅ Supported... » read more

FEZ: Discovering the Third Dimension in a 2D World FEZ is a puzzle game centered on “dimensional perception.” You play as Gomez, a small creature living on a 2D plane who one day discovers the existence of a 3D world. Then your world is torn apart. Basic Info Item Details Game FEZ Developer Polytron Corporation... » read more

Celeste: The Peak of Pixel Platforming Celeste is arguably one of the best pixel-art precision platformers ever made. Basic Info Item Details Game Celeste Developer Maddy Makes Games (Extremely OK Games) Genre Precision Platformer / Story-driven / Pixel Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/504230/ Native Linux ✅ Supported (Recommended) Story Celeste tells the story of Madeline climbing Celeste Mountain.... » read more

Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year Edition, Native C++ Rewrite Arrives on Linux If you grew up in the 90s, you’ve probably played Plants vs. Zombies during a break or lunch hour on a classroom computer. Basic Info Item Details Game Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year Edition Developer PopCap / Rewrite: Community... » read more

Dusklight: Playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on Linux Dusklight is a Godot 4-based game engine rewrite project aiming to natively run The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on PC. Basic Info Item Details Game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Runtime Dusklight (Godot 4 Rewrite Engine) Requires Original Wii/GameCube ROM or ISO GitHub... » read more

Three Terminal Emulators Compared: Kitty vs Foot vs OTTY Terminal emulators are among the software Linux users interact with most every day. Today we compare three terminals with distinct characteristics: Kitty, Foot, and OTTY. Basic Info Feature Kitty Foot OTTY Type Feature-rich Minimalist Browser-based Tech Stack C + OpenGL C + Wayland Go + JS... » read more

Flyfish File Viewer: 206 File Formats, One Component Is Enough Flyfish is an open-source file viewer that can preview 206 file formats using just a single component — from images, documents, and videos to 3D models. Basic Info Item Details Software Flyfish Type File Viewer / Preview GitHub https://github.com/nick2324/flyfish Language Rust Native Linux ✅ Native... » read more

The “Mailbox” Inside a Chip: A Tiny Thing That Decides Inter-Core Communication Efficiency Have you ever wondered how two CPU cores inside a chip actually “talk” to each other? They can’t shout, and they don’t have WeChat. The answer is simple — a mailbox. Chip designers call it Mailbox. Back in the Day, It Was... » read more

What is AppImage? Linux typically uses command-line installation for applications. But this is better suited for CLI apps. For GUI third-party applications, we want them to be free from OS limitations: Download and use immediately Work across different distributions No dependency on a central package manager There are currently several solutions: snapd — proposed by... » read more

Tencent Cloud EdgeOne Free Plan Guide: Global Acceleration + Security Shield for Your Blog Without Spending a Dime Have you ever been in this awkward situation — you spent all that effort building a blog, but when overseas friends try to visit, the loading spinner spins forever, and they finally say “Is your site down?”... » read more

Hidamari: Turn Videos, YouTube, and Web Pages into Linux Desktop Live Wallpapers — a Lightweight Python Tool Have you seen that Windows “Minecraft” dynamic wallpaper? Or those macOS landscapes that change with the time of day? The Linux desktop has always been able to do this too, but most solutions are either outdated or too... » read more

The previous article introduced what xh is and what benefits it offers. This one focuses specifically on how to install it on Linux, covering all major distributions. Installation Methods Overview Package Manager Distribution Command apt Debian / Ubuntu sudo apt install xh (requires apt.cli.rs repo) pacman Arch Linux sudo pacman -S xh apk Alpine Linux... » read more

You’ve installed xh. Now let’s get you productive fast. This guide covers GET/POST/Header/Session/Download/curl translation — everything you need for daily API work.nn nn Basic Requests nn GET — the simplest start nn xh httpbin.org/getn nnColored JSON back in milliseconds. No -X GET needed.nn Auto-detected Method nn # Bare URL = GETnxh https://httpbin.org/jsonnn# With URL paramsnxh... » read more

When you use curl to call APIs, do you ever feel annoyed at having to remember a bunch of parameters every time? -X -H -d -L — after writing that, even you can’t understand it. Try xh. What is xh? xh is a command-line HTTP client written in Rust, with 7.9k Stars on GitHub. It’s... » read more