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The MSI Wind laptop has generated a lot of excitement due to its low price and high quality feature set. But some of the earliest reviewers have pointed out that it was pretty difficult to figure out ...

It's been a month since I wrote about getting a new HP Pavilion 14 laptop and loading Linux on it. My experience with it so far has been extremely good – it has done exactly what I wanted, I haven't ...

To run Ubuntu in a VMware virtual machine, you need a computer that supports virtualization, the latest version of VMware Workstation Player, a four-core processor, 4GB to 8GB of RAM, and at least ...

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