November 20, 2012
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By design, Microsoft has made installing and booting Linux on Windows 8 PCs with UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot troublesome. Many of the major Linux distirbutors, including Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu, have proposed different ways of addressing this … Continue reading
November 18, 2012
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I decided to take a break from Windows 8. I thought if I took a breather and then came back to Microsoft’s newest operating system on a brand new PC, an ASUS CM6830 with a 3.4GHz Intel Core i7 processor, … Continue reading
November 13, 2012
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When Microsoft fired… excuse me, announced that Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky is leaving the company, many Microsoft experts opined that he left because of internal politics. Sorry. I don’t buy that argument for a New York minute. … Continue reading
November 12, 2012
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HP isn’t supporting consumer PCs downgrades from Windows 8 to Windows 7. However, the company has clarified that, if you do change operating systems anyway, your consumer Windows 8 PCs will still be under warranty . It’s been a confusing few … Continue reading
November 8, 2012
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PC companies call it downgrading, but many users just call it being sensible. You buy a new computer, and instead of using the bleeding edge operating system it came with, you move to an operating system you trust. With ordinary … Continue reading
November 6, 2012
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As wonderful as it is to use Linux on a desktop PC, gaming on Linux has been one of its weakest points. Yes, there are many Linux games but nowhere near as many as on Windows. That’s changing. Valve, creator … Continue reading