How-To Geek on MSN

5 open-source operating systems everyone mistakes for Linux

FreeBSD, Haiku, and other systems everyone mistakes for Linux are actually their own OS outside of the system that you are ...
ZDNet

Linux distro hopping is a fun way to find the perfect desktop operating system

I've been using System76's Pop!_OS Linux for about five years now. Prior to that, my distribution of choice was elementary OS. Why the change? Mostly because I purchased System76 desktop machines ...
PCMag UK on MSN

My Old Laptop Was Collecting Dust. Here's How I Turned it Into a Chromebook

Give your aging PC new life by installing a lightweight Linux distribution or ChromeOS Flex, a free cloud-based version of ...
PC World

How to install Ubuntu Linux the right way

The London-based British Linux distributor Canonical has just released Ubuntu 23.10 (“Mantic Minotaur”), the latest version of its extremely popular Linux distribution, which is mainly aimed at ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I moved my entire Linux home directory to a second drive, and nothing broke

Once you separate the roles of OS and personal data, the whole system starts to feel more deliberate.