The biggest challenge for Windows XP users switching to Linux Mint is having to change the programs you've known and used for years. Fortunately, some programs are available on both Linux and Windows.

Installing Linux Mint on a Windows 8.x PC with Secure Boot on can be a pain, but on an XP system it's easy. So, if you're considering switching out XP for Linux Mint, here's how you'd go about it.

Everybody has a version of Windows that’s their favorite. What version it is depends a lot on your age. Some of my older colleagues swore blind that Windows 95 was the pinnacle of computer science, at ...

The IT folks love Linux. The users know, and therefore love, Windows. Sound like a war? For Wade Stankich, it’s more like a happy marriage. He and his team have built an infrastructure that gives ...

Someone gave Shilissa Stimpson an old Windows XP PC. She asked what she can do with it. Windows XP is a dead operating system. Microsoft no longer supports it, which means that it’s no longer safe to ...

Good bye Windows XP and hello Linux says the International Space Station as the United Space Alliance, who manage the computers on the ISS state that “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux ...

Forget the MacBook Air, I’m getting myself a Linux-free Eee PC. I love Windows XP and I’m a big fan of the little guy from Asus. The 4G-X, as it’s being called in the land of the rising sun, is really ...

Negroponte says an insistence upon using only free, open source software has hampered the XO's usability and scared away potential adopters One day after the resignation of the One Laptop Per Child’s ...

Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Machines that would bend and break under the load of Windows 10 will run like a charm. And today’s desktop Linux distributions ...