Windows installer is slow, reboot-heavy, ad-filled and forces online accounts and privacy toggles. Linux installs fast, reboots once, skips ads and online accounts; local accounts are default. Most ...

This will provide a more comprehensive output about your graphics controller. sudo apt install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r) flex bison intel-fw-gpu intel-i915-dkms xpu-smi sudo apt install -y \ ...

A typical Linux system is largely comprised of unrestricted, open-source software. But some of the most popular software around is either closed-source or open-source, but restricted by patents.

Happy Linux Mint 16 (xfce petra) user on my laptop. I picked up a broken (well, corruptd XP install) all-in-one Sony Vaio PC and wanted to give Mint a swing on that. The specs are modest, but the boot ...

So after a few weeks of complaining about Microsoft and Windows something happened. Quite by accident, I visited the Edraw Max website only to discover that they now have a Linux version of the ...

When we left our lovely new HP sub-notebook, we had just finished configuring Windows 7 Home Premium. Now it is time to move to installing a real operating system on it, and for the sake of variety ...