Linux Mint beats Windows 11 in more ways than I expected, but switching still comes with real trade-offs.

This ideal distro for Linux newbies includes a bonus for Windows users ...

Windows 10 isn’t the only (kind of) free operating system you can install on your computer. Linux can run from just a USB drive without modifying your existing system, but you’ll want to install it on ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

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There’s no mistaking that buying desktop hardware for use with Linux is more difficult than buying Windows PCs. Even if you manage to avoid the “Microsoft tax” and buy a system without Windows ...

Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year of the Linux Desktop in 1999 that ...

Did you know that hippos are one of the most dangerous animals in the world? They can run at up to 20 miles per hour and more people are killed by hippos every year than are killed by lions and tigers ...

One of the stumbling blocks in migrating to the Linux desktop is the mistaken view that you can’t take it with you. Your data must remain captive to the Microsoft operating system. Not true at all. A ...