Sorry Ubuntu! I can't help it.

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It was October 2004, and I'd been using Red Hat Linux (way before it became Fedora) for years. I was fairly certain that would be my distribution until the world ended. I'd become comfortable with Red ...

Ubuntu Linux was a pleasant surprise. If I had to sum up my 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux in a sentence, it would be “Ubuntu Linux is more than capable of being the primary desktop OS for most users, but ...

Installing Ubuntu on a Windows computer is no different from dual-booting any operating system. In fact, it's easier than most, because Ubuntu is designed to be one of the most straight forward of ...

Debian and Ubuntu are similar, but they're not the same Debian is more stable, and Ubuntu is easier to use. I'd only recommend one of them to users new to Linux. Ubuntu is based on Debian, and ...

Long time Debian user and administrator (started out with Slackware but that's another story). I almost exclusively use the command line because I mostly deal with servers (mysql, apache, postfix) ...

Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro out there, but users coming from Windows may find it repulsive and decide to switch ...

Also in today's open source roundup: Counter-Strike 1.6 has been ported to Android, and Google has released its annual Android Security Report Many new Linux users start out with Ubuntu, and become ...

I have an aged computer that I built probably 11 years ago, and Ubuntu 25.04 seems to be usable on it. I would like to potentially repurpose it as a HTPC. My needs are pretty minimal. I don't watch ...