Click "Play" (1) and select "Workshop Maps" (2) from the drop-down. Click the right hand side "Visit Workshop" link (3), find a map, select it, and click "Subscribe" (4) to download it.

Press Shift + Tab to return to the game, or click "Click here to return to the game" at the top. It should now be available under "Workshop Maps".

If you want to save a little space, consider disabling the tab area. By default it's only used to show the current folder.

To disable tabs, open Edit > Preferences:

  1. Set "Open messages in:" to "A new message window"
  2. Click "Config Editor" button at the bottom, and double-click mail.tabs.autoHide, to set it to true

However, if you search or open Tools > Add-ons will be displayed in a tab regardless.

For various reasons, subtitles might not work in VLC, or it can lag or stutter. How to Fix VLC Lagging/Stuttering/Buffering Issues describes a few solutions.

The solutions proposed might not help in Ubuntu, though ...

You can pause a local offline Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) bots game from the console.

Press "C" to open the console, and enter these commands:

  • Enable pause with sv_pausable 1
  • Pause or unpause the game with pause

To create a custom shortcut with "P" for pause or unpause, run this command from console:

bind "p" "sv_pausable 1; pause"

Now, pressing "P" will pause or unpause your offline bot game.

Gnome Boxes is an easy way to quickly try out other Linux distributions, for example the current or next release of Debian (Unofficial non-free images including firmware packages).

You simply download the ISO-file and spin it up virtually in Boxes, without actually installing it.

Install Boxes in Ubuntu 20.04:

$ flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Boxes

If you see a message during a slow or hanging shutdown (press ESC to see messages) about a stop job is running for CUPS, wait 90 seconds ... it might be due to an old print job in the system.

Also, Ubuntu can remember an old print job, so that is is printed next time the printer is turned on, even if the computer has been turned off. This can be especially annoying if the print job was made by accident.

To prevent slow shutdowns and accidental printing from happening, a simple solution is to cancel all print jobs on a regular basis, like once an hour.

There are many ways to make quiet MP3 files louder ("Normalize"), but the easiest is by far using Audacity, since you can process multiple files at once (also known as batch processing) with the Macro tool:

  • Click Tools > Macros... > MP3 Conversion > Files
  • Navigate to the folder with the MP3 files you want to convert, select them all, and click Open

The normalized files will be created in a folder called "macro-output".

Save paper by printing on both sides of the paper (duplex). If your printer is able to print on both sides and is installed to support CUPS, you can define default setting such as changing paper size from Letter to A4 and duplex printing at http://localhost:631/. See also change default printing settings.

QGIS is an open source program which allows you to: "edit, visualise, analyse and publish geospatial information on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and mobile devices. For your desktop, server, in your web browser and as developer libraries."

To install QGIS 3.10 (Long Term Release, A Coruña LTR) on Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) or Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) follow this guide:

NOTE: Follow the guide, but under "Add the QGIS repo ...". It will install the Latest Release, so to get the Long Time Release, you have to manually define the repo version.

Normally, it is recommended to install the latest even-numbered LTS of Node.js, which from 2020-10-27 is 14.14.0 and includes npm 6.14.8.

https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md#debinstall

Install Node.js v14.x

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Versions (note, use node, no longer nodejs)