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Google Search is a hugely popular web search engine with more than 92% market share. But they are many who are concerned about how the service tracks them. If you believe that Google invades your privacy, what alternatives do we recommend?

qytdl (also known as qYoutube-DL) is a Qt-based frontend to youtube-dl. That program is a hugely popular open source download manager for video and audio from YouTube and over 1,000 other video hosting websites.

Foliate is an open source eBook viewer built with GJS (GNOME JavaScript bindings) and Epub.js, a JavaScript library for rendering ePub documents in the browser, across many devices.

In our previous articles we examined the various components that make up a mini PC. We finish the series by looking at some other factors that may be important to your purchase decision.

This series looks at emulating home computers. We start the series looking at the ZX81, a home computer produced by Sinclair Research from 1981.

We put some free games through their paces. Most of the games are available to download on Steam for free. And a few are even released under an open source license.

In this article we offer our recommendations about the type of RAM, the amount of RAM, and other factors to consider when buying a refurbished mini PC for running Linux as a desktop computer.

Your collection of CDs may be just gathering dust like mine if you’ve converted to music streaming services. While I listen to my CDs, I decided to remove them from my shelves. But many of the CDs still hold special memories. The practical solution is to rip the CDs, tag them, store them on my network drive, and pack them all away in the attic.

In this article we show you how to install Ubuntu 21.04 on your hard disk. It’s a slick process.

One of the easiest ways to install Linux is by creating a bootable USB key. We will walk you through the process for the Ubuntu Desktop distro.

In this article we consider hard disk drives which form a central part of every modern PC. If you have lots of documents, music, photos and videos, you’ll need plenty of disk space. This series recommends what to choose when buying a refurbished Mini PC to run Linux as a desktop computer.

You’ve decided that you want to try Linux but are unsure how to proceed. You are confused by the many hundreds of Linux distributions (distros) available. Which distro should you try?

This week’s blog looks at some of the ways you can run programs from different operating systems on the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC. We examine hardware virtualization, dual booting, as well as using a compatibility layer.

A motherboard is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems. It holds and allows communication between many of the crucial electronic components of a system, such as the central processing unit (CPU) and memory, and provides connectors for other peripherals.

Linux for Starters offers a gentle introduction to Linux for newcomers. Let’s kick off this series with the very basics.

This week’s blog looks at configuring the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 to use hardware acceleration when watching videos in Firefox. Hardware video acceleration lets the GPU decode/encode video, offloading the CPU and saving power. Linux distributions, by default, don’t enable hardware acceleration because it can cause issues on specific hardware.

This series recommends what to choose when buying a refurbished mini PC to run Linux as a desktop computer. For this article we focus on the CPU.

Tuner is billed as a minimalist radio station player. It’s free and open source software written in Vala. Designed for elementary OS it runs on other popular Linux distros. Here's our review of this software.

For this week’s blog, we’ve tested video and audio on the refurbished HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini Desktop PC using the Manjaro rolling distro.

This is a series of articles about buying a refurbished mini PC to run Linux as a desktop machine. Along the way, we’ll explain what you really need.