The other day I realized that it had been a long time since I'd talked about Linux as a whole as opposed to looking at specific distros. Also, over the past few weeks I've spent quite a lot of time ...

Question: Why is it that the average computer user still chooses to spend hundreds of dollars on Windows or Mac when there are countless Linux alternatives that they could download, install and make ...

OK, I just have to subject this discussion I've been engaged in on Anandtech's Operating Systems forum to wider view. <P>I've gotten into some verbal slanging with this ardent Windows guy on there ...

Canonical has been steadily working to not only make Linux more powerful and feature-rich, but to make the OS more approachable for the average user. Unfortunately, while great strides have been made ...

As much as I'd like to see it change, Windows 11 remains a far more popular choice for consumers at large than Linux is. There are a lot of reasons for that, mostly the fact that Microsoft has ...

Not everyone who uses Linux today has done so because of carefully reasoning that it is a better operating system than the others on offer. People enter the Linux fold due to different reasons and ...

The line between a Linux user and a Linux power user is a bit gray, and a bit wide. Most people who install Linux already have more computer literacy than average, and the platform has long encouraged ...