How long are you going to ride Linux with training wheels?

Two weeks ago I set aside my M4 MacBook Air and picked up a nine-year-old ThinkPad. It's one of an estimated 200 to 400 million Windows 10 PCs that don't meet Microsoft's requirements for Windows 11.

Revive Your Old Laptop: How Linux Can Breathe New Life into Devices That Seem Outdated Without Windows 11.

1. Background: What Are Zorin OS & Linux Mint? Before diving into the details, it’s important to understand where these distros come from. Zorin OS is designed to make Linux approachable for users ...

Preview can do more than just show you a file in macOS, and is especially handy for annotating images and editing PDFs. Here's everything you need to know about Preview in macOS 26 Tahoe. It is also a ...

Zena is built on top of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (“Noble Numbat”), bringing Mint’s traditional desktop approach together with Ubuntu’s well-tested foundation and extensive software repositories. It ships ...

If you are looking to use Linux Mint without creating a separate partition on your computer, a hypervisor such as VMware Workstation is the way to go. In this post, we will see a step-by-step guide to ...

PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.

I am a Linux Mint Cinnamon user (version 21.3 → 22). For more than 6 months, my system would randomly freeze for 10–30 seconds and become completely unresponsive. I rebooted more than 30 times, ran ...