7 brilliant uses for old USB sticks

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Windows’ original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here’s what you need to do

Secure Boot has relied on the same security certificates to verify bootloaders since 2011, during the development cycle for ...

8 Linux distros I always recommend first to developers - and why

For the longest time, Linux was considered to be geared specifically for developers and computer scientists. Modern distributions are far more general purpose now -- but that does ...
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How to rescue a 'broken' Linux PC from the command line

If a bad update killed your desktop interface, don't panic. You can still trigger a Timeshift restoration from the TTY ...

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

Despite its (at the time) high-end Core i7 CPU and 32GB of RAM, Windows was frustratingly slow on it. The fan was constantly at full throttle even when the machine was idle, and it regularly failed to ...
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I tried replacing Windows with Linux Mint, here's how it went

An operating system that's truly mine.