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Right now, for December 2025, Linux users made up 3.58% of the Steam userbase, which is a new record for the OS. That doesn't sound like a lot, but in September, the percentage was at 2.68%. The ...

I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, ...

Lyra Brennan stood on a near-empty beach in Barnstable, scanning the sand for adult piping plovers and their newborn chicks. A plover chick is about the size of a cotton ball, and the same color as ...

Most of the plumbing pipes in the United States are oversize, wasting water in a time of increasing drought. By Megy Karydes Many high-performing, water-saving fixtures and appliances are designed ...

The conversation around gaming on Linux has changed significantly during the last several years. It’s a success story engineered by passionate developers working on the Linux kernel and the ...

The power of working on the Linux command line is evidenced nearly as much by the available operators as it is by the awesome collection of available commands. This post gives details and provides ...