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Ubuntu Cinnamon combines familiarity and strong hardware support, making it the perfect secondary OS for your PC.

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In December 2015, Mozilla announced it would be abandoning Firefox OS as a smartphone platform. Many assumed the company's withdrawal would kill any hope of a mobile operating system built around the ...

While there may once have been a time when you decided between either a Windows or Mac computer, these days there's another option to consider -- the Chromebook. Chromebooks have grown in popularity ...

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