It's true: not all of the thousands of distros out there are worth your time.

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so on, we use FOSS and freeware apps, and wherever possible, ones that also ...

For those who aren't sure what a "package manager" is, it's a special part of Linux that usually comes pre-installed with the ...

A Raspberry Pi multiboot lets you pick Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu, or MX Linux at startup without changing SD cards.

Some of the hints for older, unsupported OSes apply equally to both Mac and Windows. Both come with an assortment of bundled ...

The collection of user data has become a contentious issue for people worldwide. Fortunately, Canonical has shown how it can be done right.

You might think your laptop is old but reliable, only to find that it suddenly became obsolete in 2026. Here's what you need ...

Sometimes, a somewhat obscure Linux distribution might be just what you're looking for. Is either CachyOS or Nobara the one?

Ghostty, the fast GPU‑accelerated terminal, now operates under a non‑profit funding model through fiscal sponsorship with ...

To the surprise of almost nobody, the unprecedented build-out of datacenters and the equipping of them with servers for ...

The only hard requirement for using hepp3n’s COSMIC Epoch PPA is to be using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It can be the desktop edition, ...

It has always been funny to us that anyone can acquire control of an open source project. But it definitely happens because, ...