How to Change Your Ubuntu’s Default Applications

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Karim Buzdar
Sep 12, 2018

We all have our preferences when it comes to the application we want to use for opening and working with a certain file type. In Ubuntu, you can change your default applications both through the command line and the graphical user interface through the simple steps described in this tutorial.

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Karim Buzdar

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