You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite. But which one should you choose?

If you've used Windows for long enough, you'll know that it tends to develop "crud" over the months. It accumulates from a mixture of Windows updates, app installations, and data corruption over time.

Sometimes you need to use someone else's computer. Maybe you're at a library, maybe you're at a friend's house helping them troubleshoot a new device on their network. Whatever the situation, sitting ...

Puppy Linux is a niche computing solution that shows the flexibility and usefulness of open-source tools and the staying power of the Linux operating system. Normally in this column, I focus on new ...

In 2025, rescue distros are more powerful, more hardware-aware, and easier to use than ever before. Whether you’re a system ...

A new Linux desktop is in the works. This portable desktop can be run like an app. Orbitiny is free to use and runs on any Linux distribution. Leave it to the Linux community to come up with something ...

I've done some reading about immutable Linux distros and, well, I guess I don't get what all the fuss is about. The idea seems to be to 'harden' a system by making it hard to modify, but. . . Isn't ...

Using Windows just keeps getting worse. If it's not Microsoft pestering you to use Edge — or making it harder for you to change the default browser — then it's how the platform has almost become ...