With Windows 8 pushing a “touch-first” desktop interface—Microsoft’s words, not ours—and with Valve’s Steam on Linux beginning to bring much-needed games and popular attention to the oft-overlooked ...

Although Ubuntu doesn’t ship with desktop widgets, you can add them using these four tools.

As a concept, the convergence of operating systems for different types of devices into a single code base seems like a good idea — providing it can be achieved without compromising the user experience ...