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Improve your Linux skills with this cool collection of expert tips and shortcuts. 

This Linux Magazine Special Edition promises you “Cool Linux Hacks,” and we’ll certainly deliver. But what exactly is a hack? In today’s world where Windows is the dominant desktop operating system, the decision to use Linux is the first and most important hack.

See below for the complete list of hacks.

This Linux Magazine Special Edition promises you "Cool Linux Hacks," and we'll certainly deliver. Discover the secrets of the experts! This collection of inspirational tricks and shortcuts for Linux geeks will help you tune your Linux system and improve your skills.

Our hacks include ingenious tools, techniques, and shell commands for customizing your desktop, repairing your system, improving privacy, working with code, and more!

Browsing the Web
Hack 1 Proofread Your Text Boxes with LanguageTool
Hack 2 ddgr DuckDuckGo Search
Hack 3 Brave Origin Web Browser
Hack 4 Floccus Syncs Your Bookmarks Across Browsers
Hack 5 Hypothesis: Annotate Your Websites
Hack 6 "I Still Don't Care About Cookies" Extension
Hack 7 Flow Web Browser
Hack 8 Cauldron Instapaper Client
Hack 9 Basilisk Web Browser
Hack 10 NouTube YouTube Viewer
Hack 11 "Who Wrote That?" Wikipedia Extension
Hack 12 Wike Wikipedia Reader
Hack 13 internetarchive: Command-Line Access

Useful Tools
Hack 14 Stencil Batch File-Renaming Utility
Hack 15 CheezyPizza WebRTC-Based P2P File Transfer
Hack 16 AkiZip: 7-Zip Front End
Hack 17 Deluge BitTorrent Client
Hack 18 Manage Your Tasks with TMOG
Hack 19 Clippy Clipboard Manager
Hack 20 CoMaps Maps App
Hack 21 Sitra Font Downloader
Hack 22 Graphical Ping Monitor
Hack 23 Use Bandwhich to Check Your Network Load
Hack 24 Subscribi Subscription Tracker
Hack 25 Sendworm Secure File-Sending Utility
Hack 26 OpenBoard Interactive Whiteboard
Hack 27 Mini QR Code Generator

Audio Magic
Hack 28 Kalorite Retro Audio Player
Hack 29 Song Recognition With Mousai
Hack 30 Firefly Synth: Polyphonic Sound Generation
Hack 31 JC303: Synth Bass
Hack 32 Faircamp: Music Platform
Hack 33 Seq66: MIDI Sequencer and Looper
Hack 34 ShowMIDI: MIDI Data Viewer
Hack 35 MidiEditor: MIDI Data Editor
Hack 36 Quetzalcoatl: Vector Synthesizer
Hack 37 Cardinal: Modular Synth Rack
Hack 38 FFmpeg: Universal Media Converter
Hack 39 Sointu: Modular Synth Tracker
Hack 40 Wavetable: Wavetable Synth
Hack 41 Command-Line Drums

File Formats
Hack 42 PdfJumbler PDF Editor
Hack 43 qpdf PDF Transformation Tool
Hack 44 Defuse Image Background Remover
Hack 45 Curtail Image Compressor
Hack 46 Audio Metadata Editor Tone
Hack 47 Constrict Video Compressor
Hack 48 ACBR Comic Book Reader
Hack 49 What File Format Is That?
Hack 50 fx: JSON Viewer
Hack 51 Durdraw: ASCII Art Editor
Hack 52 Alexandria: Ebook Reader
Hack 53 Ruffle: Flash Player
Hack 54 termdbms: Database Editor
Hack 55 Mount ISO Images with a Mouse Click
Hack 56 Get Information About ISO Images
Hack 57 Look Inside Package Files
Hack 58 ASCII Art Converter: ASCII Art

Security
Hack 59 Create an Encrypted USB Stick
Hack 60 Log In with a YubiKey
Hack 61 Lockpicker Password Cracker
Hack 62 Censor PDF Redaction Tool
Hack 63 Ncat: A Modernized Netcat
Hack 64 Xecrets Cli Encryption Utility
Hack 65 Secure Your Notebook
Hack 66 iDeal OS: Focused on Privacy
Hack 67 Ermis Steganography Tool
Hack 68 Picocrypt NG Encryption Utility
Hack 69 OpenVPN VPN Daemon
Hack 70 Scramble Image Metadata Removal Tool
Hack 71 Identities Password Storage Utility
Hack 72 Scan Your Network with Zenmap
Hack 73 Hashdeep Checks File Integrity
Hack 74 Diceware Generates Word-Based Passphrases
Hack 75 Rotor Manages Passwords Without a Database
Hack 76 File Shredder Deletes Your Files Securely
Hack 77 Mullvad Browser Protects from Fingerprinting

Retro Computing
Hack 78 Browse the Old Internet
Hack 79 Visit a MUD with TinTin++
Hack 80 Be Online with Gopher and Netscape
Hack 81 Wayback Machine: Travel Back in Time
Hack 82 The Good Old Days: Linux from the 1990s
Hack 83 Type CP/M Commands Like It's 1984
Hack 84 Get Nostalgic with BBC BASIC
Hack 85 Run DOS Programs in DOSBox-X
Hack 86 Run Your Own BBS
Hack 87 Drive Your Moon Lander -- in ASCII!
Hack 88 Run Pimiga on Your Raspberry Pi
Hack 89 Read Old Unix Books
Hack 90 Pick a Retro Screensaver

Keep It Running
Hack 91 Watch Your Configuration with etckeeper
Hack 92 Caffeine Literally Keeps It Running
Hack 93 Run Multiple Linux Distros in Parallel
Hack 94 Run Ancient 32-Bit Programs
Hack 95 Make Regular Backups on USB
Hack 96 Automatic USB Backup
Hack 97 Use a Second User Account
Hack 98 Guider Profiler and Monitor
Hack 99 Visualize ddrescue's Progress
Hack 100 Where Did You Mount That Disk?
Hack 101 Run dmesg with the Right Options
Hack 102 Run Binaries from a Different Linux Installation

Development
Hack 103 Edit Your Sources in EdiTidE
Hack 104 Try SmallBASIC
Hack 105 Godbolt Compiler Explorer
Hack 106 Get Started with the C Language
Hack 107 Try Helix, the Modern Vim Alternative
Hack 108 Geany 2: Programming Editor
Hack 109 Create 2D and 3D Games with Fyrox
Hack 110 tio: Serial Communications
Hack 111 microStudio: Game Development
Hack 112 Write Code in JupyterLab Notebooks

Shell
Hack 113 Use AI in the Shell
Hack 114 Run a Matrix Screensaver
Hack 115 Ptyxis Terminal Integrates Containers
Hack 116 Try Nushell, a New Shell
Hack 117 batcat Your Text Files
Hack 118 Navigate Smarter with Zoxide
Hack 119 Use the Pager That Can Do the Most
Hack 120 Find Your Favorite Terminal
Hack 121 Save Your SSH Sessions with screen
Hack 122 ssc: Script Compiler
Hack 123 envio: Environment Variable Manager

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