Using KDE Plasma Widgets is another fantastic way to display desktop widgets on your Ubuntu desktop. However, you need to ...

You hear declarations every year about the long-told "year of the Linux desktop" arriving this year, having arrived years ago ...

Jide may be pulling the plug on the consumer version of its Remix OS Android-as-a-desktop operating system project. But the rival team behind Phoenix OS is still hard at work. After releasing Phoenix ...

Over the weekend I wrote a post called “Why Linux on the Desktop Is Dead,” which seems to have sparked some controversy among the Linux crowd. One of my PCWorld peers felt compelled to put together a ...

This week I’m speaking at the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego on why the PC OEMs don’t, and probably never will, fully support Linux on the desktop. This is somewhat of a deja vu for me since a ...

Zorin OS 16 Lite is an ideal desktop OS for lesser-powered systems Your email has been sent Zorin OS 16 Lite might the best operating system for older hardware. Find out what it's all about so you can ...

I cannot understand this trend. Some applications (and some complete desktop environments in Linux) seem to be wanting to move functionality out of the menu bar and into a hidden hamburger menu. Note ...

Which Linux distributions will rise above the competition in 2026 to dethrone the old guard? These are my picks.

Zorin OS 16 is exactly what a Linux desktop distribution should be Your email has been sent Jack Wallen gives the latest version of Zorin OS a go and comes away with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. This article is more than 6 years old. One of the things I love ...

It's hard to imagine, but only 10 years has passed since Google launched the Chrome browser in September 2008. A world without Chrome feels like a distant past -- it's now the most popular browser by ...

Dear me. Just because I recently talked about Windows XP SP3’s virtues and vices, some people seem to think I’ve turned away from my beloved Linux systems. Nope, I’m still a rock-solid Linux desktop ...