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The hardest thing about Debian? Getting the right ISO in the first place. Once you get over that hurdle you will find it is easy to install, even on UEFI based machines and there is a good selection of software available. Getting things like Flash and MP3 audio working is simple and the stability and performance is good.

I have spent a number of weeks since Bodhi 3.0 was released trying it out and writing customisation guides. I have been pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of options available. Is this the age of Enlightenment? Maybe but maybe not.

This article lists 3 ways in which Debian needs to improve and not one is to do with the product itself. The website is ridiculously complicated, live ISOs are not UEFI bootable and the installer has over 20 screens.

This guide shows how to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Jessie. This is a fairly simple process but not necessarily obvious as the Live Disks are useless on UEFI based computers.

Every time I post a link on Twitter I get a reply stating that I should use GNU/Linux and not just Linux. To this I say "give it a rest", new users already have enough to deal with including dozens of distributions with dozens of desktops, multiple package managers and different installation methods. So GNU/Linux or Linux, what do you think?

Bodhi Linux is a distribution I have followed for a number of years. I used to have it installed on my Acer Aspire Netbook and it featured in my list of "12 great distributions for netbooks" article that I wrote back in October 2013. Now that version 3 has been released I figured it was time to give it another go.

There have been quite a few distributions that have attempted to emulate other operating systems, Zorin for Windows and Pear Linux for OSX. Chromixium brings a ChromeOS style interface to the Linux desktop.

I have recently tried the GNOME versions of openSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu. This article looks at all three distributions and highlights the things I liked and didn't like about each of them.

Unity and GNOME. They are fairly similar aren't they? Both heavily utilise keyboard shortcuts and they share similar user interfaces. This article lists the main differences between the main Ubuntu distribution and the Ubuntu GNOME sibling.

Spring is here so it can only mean one thing, the latest version of Ubuntu is here. Is there some new must have feature or is it more of the same? Have they done anything to improve the Software Centre?

I have written dozens of user guides over the years and this article lists 76 of these guides showing how to create media, backup systems, dual boot, install Linux, customise Linux and do stuff with the Raspberry PI.

Debian is such a good Linux distribution but lets face it, the website is just dreadful. To download most distributions you choose 32-bit or 64-bit and then hit the download button. With Debian there are choices for every conceivable architecture as well as 32-bit/64-bit, multiple download methods (none of which seem to be the preferred option) and mirrors with dozens of different files. This guide attempts to help new users with this situation.

openSUSE 13.2 is a great alternative to Ubuntu and Debian based systems and provides an extra level of stability over Fedora.

This guide shows you how to install openSUSE using a mixture of images and text. The guide includes sections for creating a USB drive, working your way around the confusing partitioning process and setting up the bootloader

This guide shows you how to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Fedora Linux. The guide has links to other articles which show how to backup Windows first, how to create the Fedora USB drive and how to shrink Windows before guiding you through the steps for dual booting Fedora and Windows 8.1

This guide tells you everything you need know in order to buy, set up and use the Raspberry PI 2 including the hardware you will need, how to format the SD Card and how to install and run NOOBS.

This guide shows how to install Flash, how to install Steam and how to get MP3 files to play within Fedora Linux

This is a review of Fedora 21 with the Gnome 3 Desktop. Gnome 3 has really matured well and is incredibly well polished and performs well. Wayland transformed my Fedora installation from sluggish to zipping along. There are a good selection of applications but the graphical package manager caused me some issues.

This guide shows how you can use Windows to create a bootable Fedora USB drive. The guide shows how to get Fedora and how to get and use the Rawrite32 tool.

LXLE is a great example of how a respin can add value to an underlying base distribution with great visual elements, better navigation and a complete set of packages.