Keep that creaky old PC alive with an optimized and stripped-down Linux distro.

Tom's mini-PC can surf/stream, comes up short with office apps and doesn't do Windows 11, but is perfectly capable of running a thin-client OS in a VDI setup. In two previous articles I talked about ...

Back in 2009, Google published the source code for Chromium OS, the open-source operating system project that underlies Chrome OS. However, while Chromium OS has remained open source, Google has never ...

Google's desktop mode is free, surprisingly capable, and not quite done yet ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

Linux is widely referred to as a free and open source operating system, but most Linux distributions, or flavors, aren’t actually entirely free. Yes, they’re certainly free in price (unless, of course ...

Users of Microsoft Surface Hub 2S videoconferencing devices can now switch to the Teams Rooms on Windows operating system at no extra cost, Microsoft announced this week. Surface Hub 2S users ...

In two previous articles I talked about how I purchased the cheapest Windows PC I could find, an ATOPNUC MA90, and assessed its quality and usability for home and office use. I was surprised that I ...

Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and reviewing them since built-in Wi-Fi was an optional feature. He also covers almost anything connected to a PC, including ...