If you're looking to migrate from Windows 10 or 11 and Linux is in your sights, you might want to try one of these desktop environments to ease the transition.

Red Hat, IBM and an open-source consortium are each beginning serious work to advance Linux for use on desktop computers, possibly making the OS a more serious threat to Microsoft. Stephen Shankland ...

By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number - and why people are making the leap.

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Red Hat will release a new version of its software for corporate desktops, while Sun will use Linux on its own desktop PCs as part of a plan to cut real estate costs. Stephen Shankland Former ...

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Fanboys insist we are getting the numbers wrong  For years, Linux fanboys have been insisting that this year will be the time ...

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A debate is smoldering yet again in the Linux community as prominent figures debate whether it’s time to give up hope on the “year of the Linux desktop” ever coming or whether the advent of Android is ...

The announcements, made at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco, also included plans to sell pre-configured Linux "appliances" for SMBs and a new package of Linux-based software for supercomputers.

When smartphones first arrived, it was perhaps not that strange that the devices ran programs that were vastly different from the ones our computers. The portable bricks were different enough to ...