There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, ...

One of the more surprising (and geeky) features Microsoft introduced with the launch of Windows 10 was something called Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Basically, it’s a tool that lets you run a ...

I've been using the latest version (10.04) of Ubuntu Linux since April and there's a lot to like about it. I announced earlier this year that I was giving desktop Linux another look, and I went with ...

Microsoft surprised pretty much everyone when it brought native support for Ubuntu in Windows 10 last year. Now the company is going a step further: As promised, you can now download Ubuntu right from ...

One of the most surprising new features coming to Windows 10 this summer is “Ubuntu on Windows,” which basically brings a complete Ubuntu Linux file system to Microsoft’s operating system and allows ...

Despite the recent announcement that Windows 10 phones will be able to be used as PCs when connected to an external monitor, Ubuntu—the first operating system to toy with the idea—hasn’t conceded the ...

When the Windows 10 Anniversary Update was announced, there was one feature that got me excited: support for the Linux Bash shell. I grew up using Unix shell commands and was always frustrated by the ...

If you're looking to migrate from Windows 10 or 11 and Linux is in your sights, you might want to try one of these desktop environments to ease the transition.

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