Published on: 2025-04-24 15:28:53
Enrique Aguirre Aves/Getty Images So, you've decided to jump to the Linux operating system, and a spare laptop is the best way to go. After installing the open-source operating system, you log in, start using it, and find it far easier than you thought. You also find that Linux is running a bit slow. I'm always surprised when that happens, because Linux is well-known as a very efficient OS. However, some hardware isn't quite up to the task of running modern desktop operating systems. Also: I
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 03:25:03
Looking to upgrade your office setup without breaking the bank? Dell’s Vostro Tower combines business-class performance with professional reliability in a package designed for modern workplaces. Featuring a 12th Gen Intel Core i3 processor, speedy DDR5 RAM, and Windows 11 Pro, this desktop delivers the power and features needed for today’s business environment at a price point that will make your accountant smile. See at Amazon Amazon has dramatically reduced the price of the Dell Vostro 3030
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 06:00:31
If I were any more of a moth than I am, I would be butting my head relentlessly against Nanoleaf’s latest gamer smart light that brings a bare ounce of practicality to the normally goofy gamer ambiance. The company’s new $60 Pegboard Desk Dock is a combination RGB gamer lamp, charging dock, and pegboard with hooks to hang up your controllers, headsets, handhelds, or other accessories. It could help me and other RGB-obsessed insects declutter our desks. Nanoleaf’s latest device is your typical R
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The latest addition to Nanoleaf’s lineup does more than just light up a room. Like the company’s Expo Smart Display Cases, Nanoleaf’s new Pegboard Desk Dock is designed to both organize and put accessories like controllers and headphones on display using color-changing LED lighting that can be synced to what you’re watching, playing, or listening
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 01:00:17
There was a time, even if it was just a few years ago, when an Alienware device looked like nothing else on the market. Now, in 2025, Alienware’s Area-51 desktop is built to compete on ease and customizability, all while taking the guise of every other tower out there. There’s a benefit to that. It means this extra-large, 85L desktop tower will accommodate any and every new component you want to stick in it from now until judgement day. The downside is the Area-51 is an overly-large, samey brick
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 06:54:00
I'm a mom who is always multitasking, so if something is designed to save me time, I'm all ears. This can also apply to my workouts. While I typically prefer walking and running outdoors for cardio, this can be difficult when temperatures are low or the weather isn't ideal. That's why I decided to test under-desk treadmills, as CNET's resident fitness expert and treadmill tester, to see if they would help me keep up with my step count while indoors. I received samples from Egofit and Costway to
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Allison Johnson is the smartphone reviewer for The Verge, along with, as she says, “a bit of telecom on the side, which means I am a professional phone user.” She came to The Verge from DPReview, where she covered digital cameras and smartphone cameras. That looks like a cozy space. Where in your home is it? It’s in our bedroom. When my husband and I moved into our house, we were two people who both worked outside of the home. Now, we’re two people who both work from home full time plus a thre
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 20:14:33
The end is nigh for Microsoft's Remote Desktop application. The IT giant will pull support on May 27 when users must transition to the corp's Windows App, with all the positives and negatives that entails. The Windows App arrived in 2024 to a lukewarm reception. At the time, Microsoft said: "This unified app serves as your secure gateway to connect to Windows across Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop, Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft Dev Box, and more." Effectively, it's the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 03:03:00
Testing desks is something of a subjective game. Much like office chairs, the tests are based on comfort, reliability and ease of setup rather than things you can test in electronics such as wattage and battery usage. I still tested each one rigorously and will continue to test them for longevity in the coming months. I tested these desks by asking three people to try each one. Each of them used the desk for at least 16 hours and then gave me their impressions. The three people were 6 feet, 1 i
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Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET After using Linux for a while, switching from one distribution to another becomes a fairly easy task. You know the landscape, and you understand the choices and how they are pieced together, so the decision becomes second nature. Also: The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 -- and it's not even close But those early days can be filled with confusion, especially when trying to choose a distribution. The list goes on and on and on. In
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How tall should your standing desk be? The specific height of your standing desk largely depends on your own height. If you're a shorter individual, you'll want to make sure it can adjust to a low standing height, and for taller people, you'll want it to be able to go higher. One of the biggest things we learned when switching to a standing desk is that ideally, the desk will sit where your elbows can rest comfortably at a 90-degree angle and your monitor is directly in front of your face so yo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 02:25:00
ZDNET's key takeaways NixOS is an open-source operating system that is available to install and use for free. It offers several desktop environments to choose from, is as rock-solid as any OS on the market, and performs quite well. However, there's a fairly steep learning curve for installing non-free software. View now at Nixos Before we get into this review, I want to offer some information for new Linux users. If you're uncomfortable using the command line or diving down rabbit holes to fi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 22:16:00
If you've been looking for a new computer for editing, heavy duty imaging during live shows or as a way to build a custom desktop, then a mini desktop might be an excellent option. These small but mighty devices typically cost $1,200 but Amazon's Big Spring Sale means that many competitors are also lowering their prices on coveted tech. We've spotted the M2 Apple Mac Mini for a low price of $600 at Best Buy. That makes this device half off its regular price and saves you a massive $600. This off
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ZDNET 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 could also use Ubuntu Desktop as a server, but you won't. Why? Because Ubuntu Desktop was designed as a desktop OS, and Ubuntu Server was designed as a server OS. Even though the 'twain could meet, they probably shouldn't. Also: The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 - and it
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy is The Verge’s smart home reviewer, and she’s mind-bogglingly impressive in the number of devices she covers. As she says, “On any given day, I can be evaluating anything from robot vacuums, smart locks, and lights, to smart chicken coops, smart ovens, and connected coffee makers.” Jennifer has been a journalist for her entire career, “starting at The Daily Telegraph in London, England, right out of university.” She’s been at The Verge since 2021; before that, she was a
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Discord announced a series of updates for the desktop app that help make PC gaming easier and work better for players. The company is releasing a completely new version of the Game Overlay with expanded game support and better performance, along with a refreshed look for the desktop app that brings new ways to tweak and customize Discord to make it work best for players. This follows a couple of updates last week during the Game Developers Conference, where it introduced a new mobile ad format
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 22:37:20
is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Discord is finally updating the themes on its desktop app to include a full dark mode that’s ideal for OLED monitors. The new Onyx dark mode is part of a number of UI updates to the Discord desktop app that make it closely match the mobile version of the app, alongside a much-improved overlay. The Onyx dark mode is also joined by a Dark theme in the Discord desktop app, so the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 21:59:58
Closing the chapter on OpenH264 People might have noticed me talking about dropping OpenH264 from Freedesktop SDK. Here, I’ll try to go a bit into the history, the timeline and what led to the final decision. A bit of an introduction If you are unfamiliar with the Freedesktop SDK project: it was born out of the initial 1.6 Flatpak runtime image created by Alexander Larsson to provide a host independent “runtime” for Flatpaks. Since then, with the help of Codethink and others, it grew into an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 02:00:13
ZDNET One thing you can certainly say about Linux is that it does not lack variety. You can find desktop distributions that are equal parts art and functionality, as well as those created purely for the sake of efficiency. For a while now, Garuda Dr460nized (aka "Dragonized") has been that distribution -- the one that makes eyes pop and jaws drop. It's just so cool. But then the developers of Garuda go and one-up themselves with the "Broadwing" release. If you're a big fan of the Dr460nized r
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IronRDP A collection of Rust crates providing an implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol, with a focus on security. Demonstration ironrdp-tauri-client-hackaton-result.mp4 Video Codec Support Supported codecs: Uncompressed raw bitmap Interleaved Run-Length Encoding (RLE) Bitmap Codec RDP 6.0 Bitmap Compression Microsoft RemoteFX (RFX) Examples A full-fledged RDP client based on IronRDP crates suite, and implemented using non-blocking, asynchronous I/O. cargo run --bin
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Minesweeper MCP Server This is an Model Context Protocol server that allows an MCP client agents to play a game of Minesweeper. It is intended to be run alongside the Minesweeper game server. Getting started Follow the instructions of the game server to start it locally. Build the MCP server: npm install npm run build Configure your MCP client to add the tool. For example, here is how to add the tool to Claude Desktop on Windows's claude_desktop_config.json (locating the file), assuming yo
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Kali Linux has released version 2025.1a, the first version of 2025, with one new tool, desktop changes, and a theme refresh. Kali Linux is a distribution created for cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers to red team exercises, penetration testing, security audits, and research against networks. As is typical for the year's first version, the Kali Team has released new visual elements, including wallpapers and desktop environments. Note that the strange version number is because the
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Here’s the full comment from the Google employee: “We usually don’t share our feature plan, but I have seen some expectations that I feel like should be corrected before they go wild. NOT to bring yet another desktop environment. Android, as The main purpose of this Linux terminal feature is to bring more apps (Linux apps/tools/games) into Android, butto bring yet another desktop environment. Android, as speculated by the public, will have better desktop-class windowing system. We think it wou
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ZDNET One thing you can certainly say about Linux is that it does not lack variety. You can find desktop distributions that are equal parts art and functionality, as well as those created purely for the sake of efficiency. For a while now, Garuda Dr460nized (aka "Dragonized") has been that distribution -- the one that makes eyes pop and jaws drop. It's just so cool. But then the developers of Garuda go and one-up themselves with the "Broadwing" release. If you're a big fan of the Dr460nized r
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The Android 16 Beta 3 release has introduced a minimize button to the header bar of apps opened in Android’s desktop windowing mode. Desktop windowing is a freeform windowing mode that Google introduced for tablets with Android 15 QPR1. In addition, apps like YouTube can now enter picture-in-picture mode while in desktop windowing. Tablets can comfortably fit more than one app on screen at a time thanks to their larger displays, but until recently, An
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 02:39:55
ZDNET Choice is one of the greatest things about Linux. You get to choose which version of the open-source operating system you use, what desktop environment you want, how secure you want it to be, and so much more. Linux is rife with choice, and that ideal permeates the platform. Also: The 4 most Windows-like Linux distros to try because change is hard One choice is whether or not to go with a traditional release or a rolling release. So, what's a rolling release? Let me take a step back and
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a new developer option for Android 16 that will let you enable Android’s desktop experience features. This new option enables Android’s Desktop View on the device itself as well as on secondary displays. We don’t know what the final version of Desktop View will look like on secondary displays as it’s still in development. The best Android phones are more than powerful enough to be the sole computer for most people, but most of the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 18:13:20
The Remote Desktop app for Windows is (almost) dead; long live the Windows app. Microsoft said on Monday that its legacy Remote Desktop client, which has already been replaced on other platforms, will no longer be supported on Windows after May 27, 2025. But you aren't losing any functionality here. You can still do tech support for your parents using built-in Windows functionality or the modern Windows app, which is somehow both the simplest and most confusing naming convention Microsoft's mark
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 01:07:56
ZDNET A tiling window manager can be a wonder of productivity and efficiency. Click to open an app, and the window manager will place that app in the best possible location on your desktop. Say you click the Firefox icon with nothing on your display. A tiling window manager will automatically open a maximized Firefox window, such that it takes up the entire screen. Then, you might want to open Spotify, at which point the window manager will move Firefox to the left side of the screen, and Spot
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Microsoft will shut down the Remote Desktop app on May 27, with the Windows App taking over the remote access features. According to Microsoft, the Windows App will offer a unified interface, better multi-monitor support, and Teams optimizations. Users must transition manually, and Microsoft suggests temporary workarounds until the Windows App fully supports all connections. Microsoft is about to make a change that could catch some remote workers and
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