Making the switch to Linux has never been easier, as Microsoft continues to bloat or break Windows 11 on a routine basis.

There are already some add-on applets available in the COSMIC app store, such as both minimal and full-featured Start-menu equivalents. It has also made its way into multiple distros already, and by ...

With 120 and 125 teraFLOPS of BF16 grunt respectively, the Spark roughly matches AMD's Radeon Pro W7900, while achieving a ...

This year, Dell is fully backpedaling: XPS is back. This year's thin-and-light laptops have returned to the old name scheme, ...

NixOS's declarative approach promises a revolutionary OS experience. But is it worth the steep learning curve and potential ...

The Universal USB Installer (UUI) is a powerful bootable USB software tool for creating USB boot drives from ISO files, perfect for installing Linux or Windows, running live systems, or building ...

Which Linux distributions will rise above the competition in 2026 to dethrone the old guard? These are my picks.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. USB ports are in almost every electronic device, from PC desktops and laptops to phones and tablets. Yet, it's unclear what the difference is ...

Connecting a display to a computer or media device seems like a simple thing, but the considerations are a little more complicated than you might think. In the TV world, the gold standard in 2025 is ...

If you’re using a laptop as your primary workstation and you want to upgrade your workspace and boost your productivity, then you should really look into getting a docking station. It’s the ultimate ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Have a USB device near you? Look closely at the port -- do you see a color? It turns out that it actually means something. There's a standardized ...

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