You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite. But which one should you choose?

Installing Linux distributions using WSL is simple enough. The official Microsoft Store has plenty of distros to choose from, ...

The only thing I find surprising about this is that it took so long. WSL will never be popular with the hoi polloi, but sysadmins and developers love being able to run Linux on their office Windows ...

However, one OS is hoping to draw the Windows crowd by being so alike Windows that it's hard to tell the two systems apart. It's called Winux, and it just received its 11.25.12 update just in time for ...

A massive set of changes to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was rolled into Windows Insider build 15002, which started shipping to Windows 10 users yesterday. Microsoft’s plans for WSL remain ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft previously revealed its plans to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10, ...

Update 5/13/19: The Arch Linux distribution on the Microsoft Store is not an authorized version. An Arch Linux team member has also pointed out that the distribution on the Microsoft Store added an ...

With the end of support for Windows 10 finally here, many have (perhaps surprisingly) opted instead to jump to Linux instead ...