We list the best Linux distros for beginners, to make it simple and easy to move from Windows or MacOS to Linux. Choice is perhaps the biggest strength as well as the biggest weakness of Linux. There ...

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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 ...

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...

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The conversation around gaming on Linux has changed significantly during the last several years. It’s a success story engineered by passionate developers working on the Linux kernel and the ...

An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented malicious code from spreading into widely-used versions of Linux via a compression format called XZ Utils. An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented ...

The Linux Mint community has once again released a top-tier Linux desktop: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia. I've used more Linux distributions than most people, and Mint is my favorite desktop distro. My ...

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