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The best cheap Linux desktop you can buy right now might have an Apple logo on it. That sounds wrong at first, because the M1 Mac mini was designed to be a tightly integrated macOS desktop, not a ...

Valve's SteamOS hides a powerful Linux desktop beneath its console-like interface. With a few button presses, you can unlock ...

While I couldn’t travel without a laptop, a desktop computer is my main machine when I’m at home, and it’s my preferred way to work—by a long shot. While I’ve been a PC enthusiast since I was seven ...

I tried the latest MX Linux version on my PC, and it made the system look and feel like new ...

I switched to Alpine Linux, and it's a crazy-fast distro with only one caveat ...

There's a Linux desktop environment for everyone. Windows users will feel right at home with several DEs. All of these desktop environments are free. Have you found yourself itching to walk away from ...

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