Microsoft just made Command Prompt worth using, and it's about time
Korbin Brown Apr 7, 2026, 2:30 PM EDT Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the…
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Microsoft finally admitted Linux won, and Coreutils for Windows proves it
1d agoMicrosoft paid $20 million to protect one letter from Linux
2d agoSailfish OS is Linux on a phone for people who don't want Linux on a phone, and I love it
4d agoLinux might never replace Windows, so Valve is putting it in your living room instead
1w agoI ran Windows 11 and Linux side by side for a year, and a clear winner emerged for productivity
…The only other notable tools I use for work are Affinity for editing images, which I can run on Linux thanks to the Affinity on Linux project , and a spreadsheet program to…
I stopped recommending most Linux desktops, and here's what I tell people to use instead
Korbin Brown Apr 20, 2026, 12:30 PM EDT Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the…
Hardware support is still one of Linux's biggest problems, and it may never change
…compatibility issues with some even older machines where it just wouldn't boot. Related I tried daily-driving a privacy-focused portable Linux distro on a USB drive, and it worked surprisingly…
Linux on the desktop isn't winning, but Linux on my handheld already has
…His MSc dissertation explored how artificial intelligence will reshape the future of work, reflecting his curiosity about the wider social impact of emerging technologies. Sign in to your XDA account The Linux…
The Googlebook could finally bring Linux to mainstream users, if Google gets out of its own way
…There are dozens of different Linux distros out there, and numerous package managers that aren't easily compatible with each other. Developing apps for Linux is hard because not only is the…
Microsoft keeps promising WSL will finally feel native, and I'm tired of waiting
…WSL2 is genuinely better in setup, compatibility, and raw performance — better isn't the same as native, though. The moment you start working with the Linux file system, networking, and USB passthrough…
SteamOS scared Microsoft into making Windows less like Windows
…So, Valve decided to take the onus off the developers and instead create Proton, a compatibility layer. With Proton, Linux distros could run Windows games without the developers needing to lift a…
The year of the Linux desktop already happened, just not on desktops
…But in 2018, Valve introduced Proton, a compatibility layer based on Wine with a major focus on enabling Windows games to run on Linux without emulation. It had humble beginnings, but it…
Linux has quietly become more forward-thinking than Windows, and these 6 features prove it
…It works, no doubt, but Linux takes a wildly different approach that's impossible not to be impressed by. You can swap between KDE Plasma, GNOME , Cinnamon, Xfce, or even ultra-minimal…