Windows might be your bread and butter, but you can dual-boot it with Linux if you want to tinker, or play around with a wider range of open source software. Whether you're using Windows 10 or Windows ...

Linux isn't nearly as hard as you think it is. In fact, Linux has become one of the easiest desktop and server operating systems on the planet. How is that possible? For one thing, modern Linux ...

Wine is not an emulator like Qemu or a virtualization environment like Virtualbox, but a runtime environment that aims to emulate the Windows API on Linux. This API mapping is not complete, but it is ...

There are multiple ways to try any Linux distribution on Windows 11 or Windows 10 computers. However, Hyper-V is the native virtual machine app that you can use to install Linux Ubuntu on your PC. As ...

In our main Windows 11 review posted earlier this week, we covered the majority of new features and design decisions in Microsoft’s newest consumer OS—and it feels reasonable to characterize the ...

There you have it—five apps that can help transform a bare Linux installation into a complete, functional system. Install ...

Windows Package Manager is a utility that lets you install Windows applications from a command prompt, much the way you can with most Linux distributions. Up until recently though, you could only ...

There are gentle migration strategies that can delay the move away from Windows 10, which Microsoft will stop supporting in October 2025. Technically (and maybe even psychologically), the easiest step ...

So you’re switching from Windows to Linux? Great. Like other users and organizations who’ve taken the plunge, it’s likely you’re making the move to take advantage of Linux’s stability and reliance on ...