Update: After publishing this column, I received reader feedback that caused me to review the data I’d used before. See my follow-up post for more details. Valve’s considerable efforts on behalf of ...

Linux users are slowly earning a bigger slice of the pie on Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey. Linux users are slowly earning a bigger slice of the pie on Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey. is a ...

Windows 10 only launched at the end of July and many who want to update to the Microsoft's latest and greatest OS are still waiting patiently for the phased rollout to come their way. Despite these ...

Windows Microsoft wants to make Windows 'the best place to game—no matter where you play' but Linux and Valve's SteamOS have other ideas Games Steam Replay 2025 is live: I spent half my gaming time ...

Linux is the fastest growing operating system among 500 IT executives surveyed recently by Network World. The survey, completed in May, cut across a broad range of industries, from government, to ...

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Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according to data from research firm Statcounter. That takes Linux past the 3 percent milestone it reached in June 2023. While we’re ...

Has Microsoft managed to spread a "Microsoft tax" to Linux? Microsoft has spent a lot of time trying to persuade us that Linux violates patents that the Redmond giant holds. These claims are usually ...

IDC said usage levels in Australia indicated that the number of respondents using Linux servers had risen from 17.2% at the end of 1999 to 32.4% by the end of 2002 and forecast a figure of 40% by the ...

There are a lot of reasons why systems slow down. Some process might be bogging down the CPU, you may be seeing a lot of disk contention, or maybe memory is in high demand and a lot of swapping is ...