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

We list the best lightweight Linux distros, to make it simple and easy to run a more stripped-down version of Linux, especially for older computers. This means you shouldn't expect these distros to ...

After years of trying lightweight Linux distros, a modified Windows setup finally made my old laptop enjoyable again.

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

If your aging PC is struggling to keep up with the demands of a modern Windows version, you are not alone. It's pretty common for older hardware to be left behind as software evolves. However, that ...

Learn how to record terminal sessions on Linux using Asciinema and convert them into clean animated GIFs for READMEs and ...

Background running apps could be the cause for the high CPU usage and system unresponsiveness. Learn how to control hidden background apps in Linux.

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so on, we use FOSS and freeware apps, and wherever possible, ones that also ...

A Linux-native fork of the Guild Wars Reforge Quest Tracker, rewritten to remove the Windows-only PySide6/Qt dependencies and run cleanly across all Linux distributions. This version uses a ...

Two tech enthusiasts independently transformed aging Chromebooks into functional Linux servers last week, demonstrating how ...