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Linux Desktop Crosses 7% Market Share: What It Means and How to Try It
by Liam S.by Liam S.Linux just crossed 7.5% global desktop market share per StatCounter July 2026 data. Learn what drove this milestone, the best beginner distros, and three safe ways to try Linux.
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Test your knowledge of the Linux family with this 15-question quiz covering distro origins, package managers, release models, init systems, and desktop variants from beginner to expert.
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Test your SSH knowledge with this 10-question quiz covering the default port, client syntax, key-based authentication, ssh-copy-id, scp vs rsync, port forwarding, the ~/.ssh/config file, and server hardening from beginner to expert level.
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Starling is a new Linux desktop environment written primarily by Claude AI in Swift. It features its own Wayland compositor, in-tree X11 server, and runs Chrome, VS Code, and Zoom natively. Here is how to install it on Ubuntu 26.04.
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KDE developer Meven Car fixed a 12-year-old bug where Dolphin copied small files 20x slower than cp. Learn how to check your KIO version, apply the workaround, and what is coming in KIO 6.29.