I must confess, that I try not to run Windows any more than absolutely necessary. But for many reasons, it is occasionally necessary. In particular, I have had several laptops that are finicky with ...

That's good advice, and I'm happy to follow it. If all we do is sit around and moan about dual-booting Linux on UEFI systems, it really is likely to discourage some people from trying it, and the ...

If you're dual booting Windows and Linux you're probably well aware of the number of tools available for browsing your Windows partition in Linux, but what's not quite as simple is browsing your Linux ...

Pop!_OS is different in that it focuses on gaming more than Ubuntu.

As a result, I've stopped dual-booting in favor of WSL, as my Linux machine is accessible without compromising on the main OS ...

So I'm looking to ease my main family desktop off of W11 over to Fedora KDE. There are a few things in Windows I need to make sure transition over, like the Plex server for one (files are on a ...

Over the past few days I have been installing Windows Updates on my two most recently acquired Windows 8 systems (see My New ASUS Laptop and My New Compaq Laptop). I had read several news items and ...

Before a computer boots Windows, OS X, Linux, or any other operating system it loads system-level firmware. For the past few decades most PCs have used something called BIOS to recognize your hardware ...

Well, after setting up my computer to dual boot Windows 2000 and Mandrake Linux 8, a process that seemed to go almost too smoothly for me to believe, I have run up against my first Linux problem.<P>My ...