Arch Linux has a reputation problem. Ask anyone who has used it and you’ll hear the same two things: it’s one of the fastest, most customizable Linux distributions around, and installing it will test your patience. Both are true. The good news is you don’t have to choose between the […]
You just paid good money for a laptop with this year’s CPU, a new GPU, and a WiFi chip that didn’t exist six months ago. Then you install a Linux distro built for hardware from 2023, and half of it doesn’t work. The trackpad stutters. The fingerprint reader isn’t even […]
Most “kid-friendly” technology advice boils down to buying another tablet and hoping a screen time app saves the day. Linux takes a different approach. Instead of locking your kid into an app store, a Linux distro gives them an actual computer, one that’s hard to break, doesn’t come loaded with […]
Linux stopped being a hobbyist-only option for creative work a while ago, and 2026 might be the best year yet to actually make the switch. GIMP shipped a real 3.0 release after twenty years on the 2.x line, Krita keeps sharpening its painting engine, and Pop!_OS now runs on a […]
For the better part of a year, Linux developers had a deadline hanging over their heads: January 1, 2027, the date California’s new age verification law would require every operating system sold or used in the state to start asking people for their birthday. This week, state lawmakers made sure […]
Linus Torvalds spent the better part of a day chasing a bug that had been sitting in the Linux kernel for two years. The actual fix came down to one line of logic. Finding it took eighteen kernel boots, twenty four debug patches, and an AI assistant that kept telling […]
HB5511 is officially about TikTok and Instagram. Read past the press release and it’s also about your operating system.
A single line in a technical specification is turning into one of the messiest fights in the EU’s push for digital identity. The document lays out how age verification apps for the EU Digital Identity Wallet are supposed to work, and buried inside it is a hardware requirement that has […]
Linux just did something it hasn’t done before. According to Statcounter’s numbers for July 2026, Linux now accounts for 7.53% of desktop operating systems worldwide. That’s not a typo, and it’s not one good month getting blown out of proportion by an enthusiastic corner of the internet. It’s the latest […]
For the first time, you can install genuinely open-source firmware on a modern AMD Ryzen desktop board, and it boots Ubuntu 26.04 without any workarounds.