My Asus Eee PC 1000H shipped with Windows XP, and it runs pretty well. But what’s the point in having an 80GB hard drive if you don’t partition it and try installing an alternate operating system ...

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There you have it—five Linux tools and apps that you should install on day one to get the smoothest experience using Linux.

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If you've ever suffered through a painful Windows update or watched in disbelief as your MacBook decided to slow to a crawl and switch its fan into jumbo-jet-at-takeoff mode, you know that there's one ...

Running Linux from a USB drive is possible. You can boot just about any distribution you want from USB. There are some things you should consider before going this route. I've used Linux in just about ...

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 was released nearly 3 years ago. This brought the ability to run the Bash shell and run Linux binary executables that you’d be able to run on Ubuntu Linux.

Linux users are likely familiar with Wine—a piece of software that allows Windows software to be run on Linux. But did you know you can download and run Linux on Windows natively, and through the ...

If you're the sort of technophile that follows Microsoft's every movement on the Windows front, then you're probably well aware of how many times Redmond froze hell over with its professed love for ...

OK, you've settled on which version of Linux you want to load on your old PC. Here's how to make it happen. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog ...

Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Machines that would bend and break under the load of Windows 10 will run like a charm. And today’s desktop Linux distributions ...

In recent years, Microsoft has changed its attitude towards the open source operating system Linux. A slimmed-down version can be found, for example, in the Windows subsystem for Linux. This ...