is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to allow Windows 10 testers to access Linux GUI apps.

Today, if you’re in need of a task manager application, you’re looking at a category filled — perhaps even overfilled — with options. If you carry a smartphone, you probably have a to-do listapp in ...

Linux has numerous package managers. There are command-line and GUI tools for the task. Not all package managers are created equal. When I first started using Linux, the package manager was called ...