I'm all-in, baby. I'm committed. If upgrading any distinct component of my PC didn't require me taking out a loan right now, ...

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

The Raspberry Pi comes into the picture as a way to remove that last bit of friction—hooking up a computer to my TV to work.

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it provided a single open operating system that everyone could use. With the ...

Growing up as a kid in the 1990s was an almost magical time. We had the best game consoles, increasingly faster computers at a pace not seen before, the rise of the Internet and World Wide Web, as ...

What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...

TL;DR: Windows remains the leading PC gaming OS with 95.1% market share, but Linux, driven by SteamOS and Steam Deck popularity, is steadily growing among gamers. Valve's SteamOS offers optimized ...

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

PC users who want to relive the nostalgia of an older Windows interface can download the free Linux distribution Q4OS and install the XPQ4 G UI. The GUI makes it possible to activate different ...

I activated that last week on my last computer not running Linux yet (gaming rig, and I don't really game anymore so I'm just procrastinating until the last minute), but at this point I've been ...

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