Topic: windows

Laptop screen showing Zorin OS 18 and white text.

Zorin OS 18 Broke Download Records on Windows 10 EOL Day

Zorin OS 18 was the "biggest launch ever", passing over 100k downloads in 2 days, say makers of the Ubuntu-based Linux distro – those trying it? Windows users.

20 October 2025
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Wine 10.0 Release Brings New Drivers, Features & Changes

A fresh stable release of Wine — the open-source compatibility layer that makes it possible to run Windows apps and games on Linux and macOS — has been uncorked. More than 6,000 thousand changes were distilled […]

21 January 2025

Linux Mint Gains a Windows-Style ‘Show Desktop’ Button

Meet Corner Bar, Linux Mint's take on the Windows 7 'show desktop' button. Designed for the Cinnamon desktop, the button can be clicked or hovered over.

2 November 2022
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Ubuntu Preview on WSL Brings Ubuntu Daily Builds to Windows

It's now much easier to try Ubuntu daily builds on Windows 10 and 11 using the Ubuntu Preview on WSL app recently added to the Microsoft Store.

11 May 2022
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KDE Connect is Now Available to Windows 10 Users

KDE Connect is one of the best ways to integrate your Android smartphone with your Linux desktop. Now the tech is available for Windows users to play with!

19 July 2021
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First Look: We Go Hands on With Microsoft Edge for Linux

We install Microsoft Edge for Linux using the developer build that's now available and share our early thoughts. Want to try Edge? Read on to learn how.

20 October 2020
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You Can Now Install the Windows Calculator App on Linux

Want to use the Windows calculator app on your Linux desktop? Well, now you can. This unexpected app port is arrives courtesy of the Uno Platform. They took the source code for Windows’s default Calculator […]

15 October 2020

How to Install WSL 2 on Windows 10 (Updated)

If you want to try out the improved Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (aka WSL 2) in the latest Windows versions here’s how — I cover everything you need to do to install it, in […]

6 June 2020
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Microsoft’s Open Source Terminal App Hits Version 1.0

Microsoft's Windows Terminal app has hit version 1.0. The open source app is available to install on Windows 10 from the Microsoft Store and on GitHub.

19 May 2020
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KDE Connect is Being Ported to Windows 10

Last week we reported on the progress made by a GSoC student on KDE Connect for Mac. This week we bring word on a new KDE Connect Windows port.

22 July 2019
KDE USB ISO Writer for Windows desktops

The KDE ISO Image Writer is Coming to Windows

Windows users will soon have another way to create a live, bootable USB drive of their fave Linux distribution. A KDE ISO writer tool for Windows desktops is being developed as part of the Google […]

1 July 2019
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Microsoft Makes It Easier to Try the Open Source Windows Terminal App

I carry word that users can now install the new Windows Terminal app on Windows 10 direct from the Microsoft Store – no need to build the app from source.

23 June 2019