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

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

Have you ever wanted to try out a different operating system on your Mac? Ever since Apple started using Intel chips in their computers, it’s been super simple to run Windows and even popular Linux ...

Franklin has been covering tech and cybersecurity for over 5 years. His work has appeared on TechRepublic, The Register, TechInformed, Computing, ServerWatch, and Moonlock, among others. Linux is an ...

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 -- ...

For any new release of a popular Linux distribution, there are typically numerous fans eagerly awaiting the software’s final debut. For Linux Mint 12, however, that anticipation may well have broken ...

Reading system logs can be very useful for debugging and troubleshooting a system or app that isn't working how you expect. In most Linux computers, the primary way you do this is with the journalctl ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. This article is more than 5 years old. When macOS users decide “OK ...

Today's "freebie" is nothing short of an entire operating system. It's a great choice for old and/or slow PCs you'd written off as useless. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of ...