When I first started using and writing about Linux in the late 1990s, there were just a few distributions to choose from, and even those were a bit hard to discover (unless you knew the right bulletin ...

Choice is one of the greatest things about Linux. You get to choose which version of the open-source operating system you use, what desktop environment you want, how ...

It's specifically designed and optimized for the ignored middle children of computer hardware.

Gentoo and Arch Linux require advanced technical skills and demand manual installations and updates. Slackware lacks automation and graphical tools for beginners ...