Fedora Workstation comes with GNOME, and plenty of people love it. Plenty of others want a different desktop, a lighter system, or a window manager they can drive entirely from the keyboard. That’s the job of Fedora Spins. As of Fedora 44, the official Spins page lists 12 of them, […]
Monthly Archives: October 2026
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Ask ten sysadmins in 2019 which server OS to pick and a lot of them said CentOS without thinking. That answer no longer works. CentOS Linux was shut down, and the name now belongs to CentOS Stream, a different kind of distribution with a different job. This guide compares Ubuntu […]
Ubuntu is not one operating system. It is a family of them. Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie and the rest share the same core, then split in ways you notice the second you log in. Pick the wrong one and you end up with a laptop that crawls or a […]
Most Linux users start with Gmail in a browser tab and never look further. That works until you juggle three accounts, want your mail available offline, or start wondering who else gets to see the metadata. A desktop email client solves all three, and Linux has plenty of good ones. […]
Ubuntu and Linux Mint share the same foundation, install in about the same time and run the same apps. After the first login, they feel nothing alike. Ubuntu gives you a modern, opinionated desktop backed by a company. Linux Mint gives you a familiar, quiet desktop built by a small […]