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For decades, the answer to the question "What's the most popular operating system?" was Windows. You may not have liked it, but macOS, OS/2, Linux, you name it, couldn't knock it off its pedestal. But ...

Samsung has begun rolling out a change to the Android operating system on hundreds of millions of Galaxy phones around the ...

If you were to track my history with Linux, you'd find that GNOME-based desktops have dominated. From GNOME 1.x to the current iteration, Pop!_OS (which will soon no longer be based on GNOME), Linux ...

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Modern operating systems are all far more secure than their historic counterparts, but which operating system is the safest? That somewhat depends on how you use it — no operating system is “safe” if ...

The /e/OS Foundation has been offering a de-Googled version of Android since 2018, with an emphasis on privacy and security. Now developers have introduced the biggest update in years. Among other ...