Void Linux won’t be the right distro for everyone, but on old hardware, its lean design can feel like a second life.

The Linux desktop landscape has been quietly consolidating.

There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.

When it comes to Linux, there is no one size fits all answer. But, unlike other desktop operating systems, Linux doesn’t try to squeeze you into a systems that’s too large or too small. Instead, Linux ...

There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.

Debian, Fedora, and Arch: the big three distributions on which nearly all other flavors of Linux are based. You can throw a rock into an ocean of distributions and be certain you'll hit an operating ...

My top 5 Linux desktops of 2026 (so far) - and I've tried them all ...