Installing Linux distributions using WSL is simple enough. The official Microsoft Store has plenty of distros to choose from, ...

With Windows 8 pushing a “touch-first” desktop interface—Microsoft’s words, not ours—and with Valve’s Steam on Linux beginning to bring much-needed games and popular attention to the oft-overlooked ...

Ubuntu on Windows provides Windows 11/10 users with the Ubuntu command-line tools. After installation, you can run ‘Ubuntu Terminal’ and some other command-line utilities. This feature comes in handy ...

It may be a very long time since some readers have installed a copy of Windows, but it appears at one point during the installation there’s a step that asks you which OS version you would like to ...

I can boot off the USB installer, and get the option to pick "Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS" (or the other three options), but after picking one the monitor actually goes to sleep (and this is repeatable ...

Can anyone shed some light on whythe Ubuntu 18.04.1 installer can't see any partitions on the NVMe disc (so I can't add a new partition after the existing ones) but if I hit ctrl-alt-F2 to get to ...

A few weeks ago during a time-sensitive 350GB file transfer, Windows 10 rebooted without warning. When the OS restarted I was greeted with an infuriating blue screen that had become all too familiar.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. As a rabid distro-hopper with a ton of machines and bottomless ...