Forgetting your Windows 11 password can feel like being locked out of your own home. It's frustrating, especially when you have important files and work waiting inside. The good news? You don't need to reinstall Windows or lose your data. With Hiren's Boot CD and a bootable USB drive, you...

Several years ago, KDE retired its bespoke display manager (KDM) in favor of SDDM. However, despite the community’s best efforts, SDDM’s architecture made it challenging to incorporate everything from advanced power management to specialized input methods. So, now looks like it is entering its final chapter, too. Why do I...

ProtonUp-Qt, an open-source GUI that streamlines the installation and updating of Proton-GE and Wine-based compatibility layers, enabling Linux gamers to run Windows-exclusive titles on their preferred distributions, has rolled out the brand-new 2.14 version. The key change in this release is the addition of Proton-EM, a new compatibility tool that places...

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a feature-rich, highly customizable editor loved by developers worldwide, and Arch Linux provides the perfect platform to unleash its full potential. The reason is simple: as a rolling release, Arch always provides users with the latest, most modern, and up-to-date software tools, making it a developer’s paradise. In...

If you're reading this, chances are you've felt the squeeze. Maybe it's the unpredictable VMware licensing costs that hit your budget like a freight train, or perhaps you're just tired of managing separate toolchains for VMs and containers. Whatever brought you here, you're not alone—and you're definitely not stuck. I've...

If you're an Arch Linux user, you've probably experienced the frustration of slow package downloads. The culprit? You might be using a mirror server that's geographically distant or simply overloaded. After years of managing Arch systems, I've learned that optimizing your mirror list is one of the simplest ways to...

Nine months after the previous 2.6 release, Auto-cpufreq, a free and open-source automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux, has launched its latest version, 3.0. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a great piece of software that dynamically adjusts the CPU governor and frequency settings to balance power consumption,...

Over five months after its previous 2025.3 version, the Rhino Linux team has unveiled its latest release, 2025.4, on its Ubuntu-based rolling-release distribution, which features a custom desktop environment (Unicorn) built around the Pacstall package manager. According to the announcement, over the past months, much of the team’s effort has gone...

Built on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, elementary OS 8.1 has been released just in time for Christmas, and is now available for download, marking the first point update in the 8.x series. The biggest change is that the Wayland-based Secure Session is now the default, but users can still switch back to...

Over three weeks after its beta and four months since the 22.2 “Zara” release, Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is now available for download, as the status has been changed from “Being tested” to “Approved for stable release,” and the installation ISOs are now being synchronized across the mirrors. Powered by Linux kernel 6.14, the distribution is...