Now that you've picked Linux Mint as your preferred distro, which desktop environment will you pick as your preferred edition?

There’s a reason Linux Mint is popular. Cinnamon was originally developed for Linux Mint, but it’s becoming more widespread. Linux Mint is still the only distribution to use it by default, but you can ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

Linux Mint isn’t chasing touch interfaces, rethinking the way we use the desktop, or enacting any other grand experiment. It’s just a polished, modern Linux desktop system—and that’s why people love ...

The team behind Linux Mint has released beta ISOs for Linux Mint 19.2. The new betas come in three flavours, Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. There are many common updates to them all such as changes to the ...

Freie Betriebssysteme auf Basis des quelloffenen Systemkernels Linux machten zuletzt auch auf dem Desktop große Fortschritte, auch dank der sehr modernen und aktuellen Arbeitsumgebungen. Die neue ...

A Linux distribution on the desktop is an amalgam of the tortoise and the little train that could. Ever so slowly, it continues to move onward and upward, ticking away the market share percentages by ...

According to the team’s leader, Clem Lefebvre, 152 issues were reported during the beta period and many were fixed ready for the launch. He confirmed that there are still a number of issues that need ...

Nearly all Linux distributions could serve as either a desktop or server OS. It's not like you'd want to slap a desktop environment onto Ubuntu Server and use it as a desktop OS, but you could. You ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. This article is more than 6 years old. The Ubuntu 19.10 upgrade ...