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

ZDNET's key takeaways Q4OS is a great way to test the Linux OS.A special Windows installer makes things easy.You can install ...

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 ...

So you’re switching from Windows to Linux? Great. Like other users and organizations who’ve taken the plunge, it’s likely you’re making the move to take advantage of Linux’s stability and reliance on ...

CPU benchmarks are in for the latest release of Windows 11, version 25H2, and results stacked up against Ubuntu aren't looking particularly flattering for Microsoft's latest and greatest. In ...

The default behavior of ping on Linux and other Unix-like systems is different from Windows. On Windows, the ping command ...

Wine 11.0, the latest stable release of the open-source compatibility layer that allows Windows games and apps to run on ...

Linux offers more security, privacy, and freedom from vendors. Modern Linux distros are user-friendly -- even for non-techies. Linux Mint, Zorin OS, MX Linux top beginner distro list. Get more ...

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

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 ...