My own development environment is a loose constellation of Notepad++ on Windows, and Vim on Windows and elsewhere, with Bash and similar shells the environment for running the Ada toolchain in.

It's easy to create environments. To create an environment, you use the mamba create command with the "-n" option followed by the name of the environment you wish to create, then the list of packages ...

If you were ever curious as to the difference between a Linux desktop environment and a window manager, Jack Wallen is here to clear that up.

And for developers, setting environment variables can come in handy. For example, you might want to set a temporary variable for the version of your distribution you use, so downloading the ...

You can tailor every aspect of your OS, from the kernel to the desktop environment, to create a highly optimized and personalized setup for your programming workflow. Linux’s open-source nature ...

George Whittaker is the editor of Linux Journal, and also a regular contributor. George has been writing about technology for two decades, and has been a Linux user for over 15 years. In his free time ...

The Linux desktop matters for Ubuntu users The desktop edition of Ubuntu 22.10 is the one where users will visually notice the biggest differences from prior releases.