8 ways I optimize Zorin OS for peak performance - from a decades-long Linux user ...

If you’re interested in Windows performance, you may want to take a look at our experiences with the 3990X here. It’s been a lot of fun watching AMD and Intel duke it out over CPUs the past few years, ...

The sar command can provide detailed system metrics on just about every aspect of system performance. You can query it on as as-needed basis or set it up to provide daily reports. Sar is a system ...

I recently posted a somewhat scathing look at the state of gaming on Linux. It took some folks by surprise. As I said in that piece, I’m a Linux advocate but I’m also a critic. However, it would be a ...

In context: Linux offers developers and engineers a means to "tune" its operations, providing thousands of individual parameters that can adjust how the open-source kernel manages resources. Tuning ...

Tuning Linux systems for performance is an essential task for any system administrator, but it also is one of the least documented. Without a hard-won understanding, performance tuning often can seem ...

AMD and Intel modern processors just got big boosts in performance thanks to various implementations of AES-XTX that help in disk encryption. For example, Windows BitLocker uses AES-XTX-128. Back in ...

Get the latest GPU rendering benchmark results in our more up-to-date Blender 3.6 performance article. It’s time once again to take an in-depth look at CPU and GPU performance in Blender, something we ...

I tried the latest MX Linux version on my PC, and it made the system look and feel like new ...

Discover the hardware and software secrets behind building a powerful, portable Linux PC that fits right in your hands.