Someone recreated Windows 8.1's tiled Start menu for Linux — a niche, open-source throwback. It's Python-based, supports ...

Windows installer is slow, reboot-heavy, ad-filled and forces online accounts and privacy toggles. Linux installs fast, ...

Lightweight Linux distributions get a bad rap for shipping with minimal reinstalled software. Besgnulinux, loaded with old-school charm, is the exception.

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

Doing something similar to what Valve will do for the Steam Frame, Canonical have announced a Steam gaming Snap package for ...

Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.20 Beta coming with just two changes, and one of them is very interesting to see arrive on ...

Got time for a final blast through smaller Linux app updates to round out 2025? There will be plenty of big new releases to ...

Many people want to stay on Windows 10, but among gamers, Windows 11 continues crushing its now-unsupported predecessor.

Microsoft has seemingly disabled phone call activation for Windows 11, and perhaps older versions as well, making it ...

Windows 10 wasn’t perfect; these examples of what it did right are cherry-picked. But part of the operating system’s ...

Intel’s Core Ultra 7 155H “Meteor Lake” just got a nasty reminder that “progress” on Linux is not guaranteed. Phoronix reran its… Chipzilla’s laptop part has managed a backwards step. Intel’s Core ...

Akira Urushibata recently wrote to libreplanet-discuss, which hadn't been active for 2 months ( he was the last person to write to it back in November ). His latest message is a bit like an article ...