Linux has a new desktop environment in the works, and COSMIC is already looking very promising in its first beta stage.

WinBoat is a very interesting tool in development to run Windows apps on Linux in a full containerised environment and it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Snaps, a relatively new development in the Linux world, are ...

Chromebooks are more powerful than you realize already, but zooming around the web in Google’s browser is just the beginning of what Chromebooks are capable of. Chrome OS is built on top of the Linux ...

We've taken you through a tour of Window Managers in Linux, and now it's time to show you the Window Manager's bigger brother: the desktop environment, or DE for short. With a sea of choices out there ...

If you need an operating system that is blazing fast, and you have a spare PC lying around, give one of these speedsters a try.

Linux without a desktop environment? One of the best things about Linux is that there is a wide variety of desktop environments available to choose from for your computer. But not everybody uses a ...

The Disks app takes over some more challenging commands, such as fsck, mount, parted, chown, and dd. This app is a handy GUI that also prevents you from having to edit the fstab configuration file ...

Last week, I reviewed ChromeOS from a desktop environment perspective as part of my “Linux Desktop-a-Week” series (which, really, has become less of a weekly thing and more of a ...

Apple's Mac operating system has surpassed Linux in popularity as a development environment in North America, according to an Evans Data survey. Windows remains at the top of the development ...