First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

I'm trying to make a reliable UEFI Secure Boot disk for any UEFI bootable system, for tech support purposes. I want to build a disk like the Falcon Four Boot CD (improved Hiren), but using Windows 10.

Starting your Surface from a USB drive can be useful if you want to change firmware settings or Windows startup settings or if your Surface device does not turn on, start, boot, or wake from sleep.

The final release of Linux Mint 17 (Qiana) was made available over the weekend. The release announcements (Cinnamon/MATE) give a brief overview of the release. Two particularly important bits of ...

Earlier this week I realized that there had recently been a new release of PCLinuxOS. It was not as easy or obvious as you might think to notice this, because there was no release announcement that I ...