Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

Linux is finally getting an important performance-boosting feature that has been present on Windows 11 and 10 for several ...

You can't deny the advantages Linux is bringing to PC gaming, but Windows is in no immediate danger of losing its OS ...

With the end of support for Windows 10 finally here, many have (perhaps surprisingly) opted instead to jump to Linux instead ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

Now, Cinnamon is the flagship desktop environment of Linux Mint, which is generally the best distro for experiencing it.

In the realm of computing, the choice between operating systems often feels like a crossroads. Each path—Windows with its widespread application support and user-friendly interface, and Linux with its ...

One of the stumbling blocks in migrating to the Linux desktop is the mistaken view that you can’t take it with you. Your data must remain captive to the Microsoft operating system. Not true at all. A ...

Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows, as research firm IDC reported last week. What’s not always appreciated, however, is just how ...

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re ...

The differences in security between Linux and Windows are complex; Youssef Bassil of the Lebanese Association for Computational Sciences spent nine pages detailing the differences in his article ...