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7 brilliant uses for old USB sticks

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I'm going back to the 2000s this weekend by installing this classic Linux distro

With its built in theme settings, Q4OS can be a real blast from the past.
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How to install the Android 17 Beta on Google Pixel

Google has released Android 17 in beta for Pixel devices, skipping the usual Developer Preview given the arrival of ...
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Forget tiny distros: How I built my own minimal Linux using Debian

Who needs a separate distro when you can tweak the Debian you already have?

How to switch Linux distros and retain all of your data

Migrating from one distribution to another isn't all that hard… Unless you want to retain all of the data within your home directory (or any directory, for that matter). If you don't do something to ...

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Microsoft Weekly: Windows 11's taskbar is upgrading, better Task Manager alternatives, more

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Rufus developers have been blocked from downloading Windows ISOs, and believe there's 'active intentional involvement from Microsoft'

Insider builds of Windows 11 are unaffected by the issue; if you're not part of the Windows Insider preview program, you ...