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

You can revisit the early days of Linux through MiDesktop, a modern fork of the original KDE 1. It's a must-try nostalgic experiment.

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

One of the longest running jokes in our sphere is that the coming year will finally be the year of “Linux on the Desktop.” Never mind that the erosion of the traditional Windows-style desktop form of ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it provided a single open operating system that everyone could use. With the ...

The only hard requirement for using hepp3n’s COSMIC Epoch PPA is to be using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It can be the desktop edition, ...

PCLinuxOS is as close as a distro can get to masking all the technical things that scare people away from the Linux OS.It makes installing and using the distro beginner-level easy. That says a lot for ...

Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism' Opinion Ever since Linux got a graphical desktop, you could ...

It kills me to say this: The dream of Linux as a major desktop OS is now pretty much dead. Despite phenomenal security and stability–and amazing strides in usability, performance, and ...

Linux is awesome. It’s a powerful, capable, flexible operating system with tremendous potential. But, it’s never going to be a factor on the desktop, so don’t even waste your time considering it. On ...