Ubuntu maintainer Canonical and Microsoft have teamed up to release an optimized Ubuntu Desktop image that's available through Microsoft's Hyper-V gallery. The Ubuntu Desktop image should deliver a ...

If you've ever suffered through a painful Windows update or watched in disbelief as your MacBook decided to slow to a crawl and switch its fan into jumbo-jet-at-takeoff mode, you know that there's one ...

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Looking to use WSL on your Windows PC? These are the distros you'll want to use. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While WSL is ...

There are gentle migration strategies that can delay the move away from Windows 10, which Microsoft will stop supporting in October 2025. Technically (and maybe even psychologically), the easiest step ...

The latest version of Ubuntu isn't being released on the Microsoft Store for WSL, but you can still get it installed. Here's how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Phoronix's Michael Larabel is doing some performance testing on Walmart's $199 Motile-branded M141 laptop, which has an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor, Vega 3 graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 14-inch 1080p ...

A few weeks ago during a time-sensitive 350GB file transfer, Windows 10 rebooted without warning. When the OS restarted I was greeted with an infuriating blue screen that had become all too familiar.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. How explosive? Ubuntu’s overall share of operating system usage ...

This wasn’t the pined-for year of the Linux desktop, but 2014 was still huge for the anything-but-Windows PC universe. Chrome OS made massive strides in 2014, and so did more traditional Linux ...