The first is SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system that launched in 2014. This operating system was designed as a ...

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

PC gaming is in the middle of a quiet platform revolt. Frustration with Windows 11’s direction is colliding with a once‑niche alternative that now runs most of the same games, and in some cases runs ...

Let me paint a picture for you. I was running a virtual instance of another Linux operating system this morning with VirtualBox. Everything was going fine (as it usually does) until it wasn't. The ...

For many, Windows is the only desktop operating system they've ever used. For them, there's a familiarity that makes dealing with the usual troubles associated with Windows (random restarts for ...

Google is slowly starting to add support for running Linux applications on Chromebooks. But as I discovered when I tested Linux apps on the Acer Chromebook Tab 10 recently, it’s still a work in ...