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I’ve been using Linux in one capacity or another for nearly twenty years, but my tastes haven’t changed – I’m a Debian and Ubuntu fanboy at heart. However, there are a few unconventional Linux ...

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Tom Fenton explores using ChromeOS Flex as an OS replacement on a decade-old, dual-core laptop running Windows 10, as Windows ...