If you downloaded Linux Mint on Saturday, February 20th, you may have grabbed a hacked version that includes a backdoor. Here's what you need to know.

Then, too, there’s the ever-growing array of tiny Linux PCs such as the Raspberry Pi, the Cotton Candy, the Mele A1000, the Vivaldi tablet, and the MK802 micro-PC, to name just a few.

Windows 11 customization has always been lackluster, but Linux Mint has truly showed me how many possibilities I've been missing out on.

Linux Mint is my favorite desktop Linux. Thanks to Microsoft's Secure Boot implementation , however, installing Mint, or any other operating system, on a new Windows 8 PC is a royal pain in the rump.

Announced earlier this year, the fanless mini-PC has a $299 starting price and ships with a quad-core Intel Celeron processor and the latest flavor of Mint.