There's a new Linux desktop on the horizon that wants to be your next old-school MacOS desktop clone. Does it succeed?

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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 ...

Growing up as a kid in the 1990s was an almost magical time. We had the best game consoles, increasingly faster computers at a pace not seen before, the rise of the Internet and World Wide Web, as ...

The Linux desktop revolution is just around the corner! This is a familiar refrain that has received new life in recent months thanks to Valve and its efforts to turn Linux into a gaming platform with ...

The version number isn't a typo: Pop!_OS is a third-party Ubuntu remix, and this is the Noble Numbat-based version – the ...

You want to know the funniest thing is about compared Corel Linux 1.0, released in 1999, with a typical modern desktop Linux — say, Ubuntu 9.10? How much hasn’t changed. It’s sort of like comparing ...

I just bought a new ThinkPad and am relegating the old one (a T61) to web browsing duties. Though I had Windows 7 on it, I thought it would be a good opportunity to give Ubuntu a shot, as it's been a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Ubuntu Cinnamon is a brand new “remix” project that incorporates ...