Valve's SteamOS hides a powerful Linux desktop beneath its console-like interface. With a few button presses, you can unlock ...

Plenty of proof that a Linux distro can be polished, stable, and easy to use.

Windows seems like the easier operating system, until it is not.

I started using Linux back in 1997. I had been using Windows 95 and found it to be, well, unreliable. Although I wound up tossing myself into the open-source deep end without a lifeboat, it didn't ...

Linux (come on, you knew it’d be Linux) takes a different approach: no locks, no guardrails, no limits. That’s what makes Linux a real operating system, something its competitors, dwarfing it in ...

Millions of people use Linux every day, but we rarely stop to think about how the operating system feels about it. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what Linux really thinks about open source, Windows, Macs ...

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Jack Wallen explains how Linux has changed computing for the better and ponders what might be next for the open source OS created by Linus Torvalds. Today marks the official 30th birthday of the Linux ...

Unsure of which operating system you want to run on your laptop? Jack Wallen offers some key benefits of the available choices. Laptops are an indispensable piece of hardware that are far more ...

For decades, Microsoft Windows and the open source Linux operating system were polar opposites. Windows was developed by the biggest software company in the world, one that was no friend to open ...