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Linux users are slowly earning a bigger slice of the pie on Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey. Linux users are slowly earning a bigger slice of the pie on Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey. is a ...

Rufus is a wildly popular software for creating bootable USB drives on Windows. It allows you to make a bootable USB of almost any OS in existence, including Windows and Linux distros. Besides, Rufus ...

Video playback doesn't work using ffmpeg 4.x with some Ubuntu/Lubuntu 22.04 devices. Just shows first frame of video. Tested with AIR 51.2.2.2 with multiple Ubuntu 22.04 and Lubuntu 22.04 x86_64 ...

If you’ve got an old laptop or desktop gathering dust, 2026 is the perfect time to bring it back to life — and you don’t need expensive hardware upgrades to do it. Lightweight Linux distributions have ...

The third monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 25.10, code named Questing Quokka, has been released. This "Questing Snapshot 3" is basically a peek at how the development of Ubuntu 25.10 is coming along. For ...

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The first name on the list, Puppy Linux is a must-try Linux distro for low-end PC users. It is renowned for its extremely small size and minimal system requirement. The distro is designed to run ...