Linux is popular!

When Microsoft launched Windows 11 in October 2021, it assumed that within four years nearly every PC user would be running the new operating system. It therefore stuck to its original end-of-support

Lawrence Klein is doing what many Computeractive readers have told us they hoped someone would. He’s suing Microsoft for ending support for Windows 10, and wants judges to force the company to postpon

Thank you to everyone who replied on Facebook and X. You gave us a brilliant selection of responses and we’re sorry we can’t print them all. Let’s start with some desktop love, as that topped our char

I enjoyed Lee’s article “Windows 11: All Your Questions Answered” (see issue 372, p26). Here’s another suggestion for extending the life of a laptop. Many that cannot move to Windows 11 have a DVD dri

It feels like a broken record to be discussing how far ahead AMD is with workstation CPUs. We’ve been riffing around this topic since the AMD Ryzen Threadripper appeared in 2018. By 2019 AMD CPUs were

Whether you want to buy a new PC or build one yourself, squeezing the most out of your budget is a challenge akin to four-dimensional chess. Every decision you make has repercussions, some of which ma