…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account Summary M2 Color Craft Laser packs CMYK…
…If a company wanted to get their hardware on the OS, they would code up a driver so that Windows knew what it was looking at. The problem is, not all drivers…
…Naturally, mini PCs can handle a ton of different scenarios, replacing a full-size desktop for everyday use, or just becoming part of your home lab. You can also make it the…
…Hardware demands ignore basic systems Ubuntu isn't a low-spec distro anymore Ubuntu could run with 500MB of memory when I started using it. As Ubuntu matured, it ditched Unity desktop…
Rich Edmonds May 18, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
…An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building…
…Sign in to your XDA account For years, Ubuntu shipped with what felt like a foot entrenched in two eras of the Linux desktop. Wayland has far and away become the default…
Rich Edmonds Mar 25, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
…It'll install a Debian-based distro but without a desktop environment, as it was intended to bring more Linux apps and games into the Android ecosystem. That's not to say…
…File sharing, backups, DNS, dashboards, lightweight containers, and a small media library don’t usually need high-end desktop hardware. A faster chip can still make sense for heavy virtualization, software transcoding…