Now, Cinnamon is the flagship desktop environment of Linux Mint, which is generally the best distro for experiencing it.

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

As a Pop!_OS veteran, I've not been this excited about a release since I first started using System76's in-house distribution.

Every year, someone jokes that this may just be the "year of the Linux desktop." It's a meme. But under the radar, enough ...

It appears that turning Android into a desktop operating system is Google’s next big consumer initiative. To put it bluntly, I think this effort fails if all they’re doing is making a one-to-one ...

Sometimes it’s nice when a product launch falls when I’m on the road. I qualify that statement because, well, it’s one more thing to shoehorn into an invariably overloaded work trip. But there are ...

After using Linux for nearly 30 years, I've created a list of the best Linux distributions I've used since the beginning. Here they are.

Google has officially acknowledged the upcoming merger of Android and Chromebooks, and it may be coming in 2026.

Not so long ago, desktop environments tended to be variations on a dominant theme. Designed to help the user interact with key parts of the operating system, these interfaces featured icons, toolbars, ...

When it comes to operating systems, Microsoft, IBM and Apple aren’t the only mega-companies with all the knowledge. Sun, with its Solaris OS, has years of expertise with Unix-based operating systems.

For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the same top two contenders: Microsoft’s Windows in a commanding lead at number one and Apple’s macOS in distant ...