One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.

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Late last week, with the help of Network World’s resident Linux guru, Armen Brown, my ancient spare XP PC was converted into a Linux PC running the Ubuntu distro (with the Gnome desktop). Thus began ...

Rhino Linux is a new GNU/Linux distribution that’s based on Ubuntu, but which handles some key things differently from Canonical’s operating system. Unlike Ubuntu, Rhino is a rolling release operating ...

You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite. But which one should you choose?

The System76 Meerkat is a mini PC that’s basically a rebranded Intel/Asus NUC that ships with the System76 logo, comes with a number of memory, storage, and wireless configuration options and offers ...

Wine is not an emulator like Qemu or a virtualization environment like Virtualbox, but a runtime environment that aims to emulate the Windows API on Linux. This API mapping is not complete, but it is ...

If you're looking to finally test the waters of Linux, here's a distribution that has everything you need to get started, with everything you need and little complication.

Linux is not the same as Windows. The operating system is operated and configured differently than Windows and Windows programs cannot be started directly. With the help of virtualization or Wine, ...

Here is your up to date list of what distro you should be picking if you want to start gaming on Linux in 2026. The latest ...