Are you building a new PC and want to install Linux on it? Don't settle for the timid Linux distributions that prioritize stability over everything else. Distros that pack the newest hardware support ...

Two new versions of Linux Mint will appear this year. The first, LMDE, is based on Debian Linux 13. The second, Mint 22.3, will be the next mainstream release. The point of LMDE, as Clem has remarked ...

Linux 6.17 features significant CPU improvements. It addresses the eternal Spectre and Meltdown security holes. The next release, 6.18, will be a long-term support kernel. Linus Torvalds is the first ...

Over this series test-driving operating systems, we’ve tried to bring you the unusual, the esoteric, or the less mainstream among the world of the desktop OS. It would become very boring very quickly ...

You've likely heard people talking about Linux as a more stable, secure, and customizable operating system than Windows 11. That might be hard to believe, but in some ...

This week, The Restart Project, a right-to-repair activist group published new statements regarding the upcoming end of support for Windows 10. The group once again urged Microsoft to consider ...

Once Windows 10 security updates end on 14 October, users will have a couple of options if they can't upgrade to Windows 11. One is to extend your Windows 10 licence and then splash out on a new PC.

"No, VS is Windows only and that isn't going to change," said Microsoft's Mads Kristensen today in a social media post in response to the question that keeps popping up about taking the flagship IDE ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The former FBI director was asked about 2017 remarks he made under oath. A key Senate hearing from five years ago is the center of the federal probe into former FBI Director James Comey, sources told ...