I've been using Ubuntu for decades. Whether you're new to the OS or returning to it after a while, these are the essential apps, hidden settings, and useful tweaks you need to know about.

Discover the hidden Linux kernel inside your Windows PC and how it can revolutionize your computing experience.

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 ...

A disclaimer: There's no real such thing as a Linux laptop. Linux will work on just about any PC, and I mean that literally. Remember the Intel Pentium 4 processor? It came out in 2000, and it's still ...

First of all, we need to download the installation media of VirtualBox and then install it on your computer. You can get VirtualBox from virtualbox.org and then run ...

Ubuntu 26.04 vs. Fedora 44: After years of testing both Linux distros, here's my verdict ...

Sometimes you don’t need to be “better”—you just need to be different.

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 ...

Using Ubuntu Linux to import and edit photos from a digital camera. By J. D. Biersdorfer Companies are starting to see the advantages of being able to do large amounts of computing with technology ...

PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.

A lightweight Linux distribution can revive old hardware. Puppy Linux and Linux Lite achieve this in very different ways. Both of these distributions can be used for free. Do you have an old computer ...

This is a soft mod, so it won’t persist between power downs or restarts, but the Linux installation will let you play PC ...