Amiga Workbench Simulator helps you pick your ultimate retro desktop — TAWS recently updated with refinements to OS 3.2, AmiBench presets

TAWS – The Amiga Workbench Simulation has been updated with refinements to Workbench 3.2, AmiBench, and more.

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California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

The law’s broad definition of an “operating system provider” pulls in not just Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, but Linux distributions and Valve’s SteamOS.
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Developer’s 1994 Linux desktop recreation runs in your browser as a modern web app — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead and features classic 90s web browser, text editor, and more

A new GitHub project has resurrected the 1994 Linux experience with this Debian clone in your browser, a pixel-for-pixel recreation of the original Common Desktop Environment that early Unix system users will be familiar w…

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‘So big, it’s basically a Start screen again’: Windows 11’s new Start menu is getting some hate — and triggering Windows 8 flashbacks

Windows 11’s new Start menu is proving seriously divisive – some feel it’s huge and badly designed, but there are fans too.
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Microsoft’s planned new AI trick for Edge will ‘automatically open the Copilot side pane’ with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already

Microsoft is looking to bring a new AI trick to Edge — and I’m betting most of the browser’s users will hate it.

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‘Windows 11 is far from perfect’: Microsoft just released an update I actually want to install — and you should too

Microsoft is forcing another Windows 11 update on us, but this one is actually worth installing

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Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing

Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS

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Will the Control Panel ever die? Rare feature migration to Settings spotted in Windows 11, but don’t get your hopes up for more of this

Microsoft shifts another Windows 11 feature to Settings from the Control Panel — but I expect the latter will still be with us in the 2030s.
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Linux 7.0 launches with enablement for Intel Nova Lake, AMD Zen 6 — major kernel update expected in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 first

A major kernel update, Linux 7.0, has been officially released. Although it’ll take some time to show up in various Linux distros, the kernel comes with preliminary support for AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 and Intel’s Nova Lake.
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Can’t afford a fancy new graphics card? Here’s how to turn your outdated GPU into a frame-gen machine for less than the price of a 6-piece chicken nugget meal

Can’t afford an RTX 5090? I can’t either — but I’ve transformed my old GPU into a dedicated frame-gen card with this super-cheap app.
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