Welcome to a new series here at Forbes that zeroes in on your very first experience with a desktop Linux operating system: the installer. This time around I'm exploring a desktop Linux OS that's been ...

Chromebooks are capable web-focused PCs, and a great choice for anyone who needs a laptop for travel or working outside the office. Thanks to a wide variety of fully featured web apps—some of which ...

What operating system do you use? For some, that question may as well be posed in Latin or Sanskrit. For others, it’s an invitation to have a heated debate about the benefits of GUI vs. command line, ...

Welcome to a regular series here at Forbes that zeroes in on your very first experience with a desktop Linux operating system: the installer. This time around I'm escaping my comfort zone and leaving ...

Arch Linux isn’t even close to the hardest distro out there—here’s what really is.

Chrome OS began as a simple browser-based operating system that only ran progressive web and Chrome apps. Over the years, Google's OS has evolved well past its humble origins. Modern Chromebooks ...

It's not Linux, or even Unix.

Debian, Fedora, and Arch: the big three distributions on which nearly all other flavors of Linux are based. You can throw a rock into an ocean of distributions and be certain you'll hit an operating ...

If you don't know what the Linux desktop operating system is, or if you're new to it, Jack Wallen's quick explainer will get you up to speed. Linux. What is it? At one point in time it was a niche ...