Valve’s instructions will walk you through downloading a SteamOS recovery image and copying it to a USB drive using either the Rufus tool (on Windows) or Balena Etcher (the preferred macOS and Linux utility). After turning Secure Boot off, you […]
SteamOS 3.7 brings Valve’s gaming OS to other handhelds and generic AMD PCs Read More »
By late 2021, major updates for Windows’ built-in Notepad text editor had been so rare for so long that a gentle redesign and a handful of new settings were rated as a major update. New updates have become much more
In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you” Read More »
Bambu Studio isn’t the most approachable application, but if you’ve made it this far, it shouldn’t be totally beyond your comprehension. For first-time setup, you’ll choose your model of printer (all Bambu models and a healthy selection of third-party printers
What I learned from my first few months with a Bambu Lab A1 3D printer, part 1 Read More »
AMD didn’t provide much by way of performance comparisons, but it’s promising that the cards have the same number of compute units as AMD’s last-generation RX 7600 series. AMD says that RDNA 4 compute units are much faster than those
AMD’s $299 Radeon RX 9060 XT brings 8GB or 16GB of RAM to fight the RTX 5060 Read More »
Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update back in 2016, giving them access to a built-in Linux command line and Linux applications
Microsoft closes 9-year-old feature request, open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux Read More »
When Nintendo took the wraps off the Switch 2 in early April, it announced that around a dozen first-party Switch games would be getting free updates that would add some Switch 2-specific benefits to older games running on the new
Nintendo says more about how free Switch 2 updates will improve Switch games Read More »
Like the Surface Studio desktop, the Laptop Studio’s odd and innovative exterior was rendered less exciting by a high price and relatively underpowered interior. Before discounts, the Laptop Studio 2 starts at around $2,400 for a basic configuration with a
Microsoft’s Surface lineup reportedly losing another of its most interesting designs Read More »
Microsoft put a lot of focus on Windows 11’s design when it released the operating system in 2021, making a clean break with the design language of Windows 10 (which had, itself, simply tweaked and adapted Windows 8’s design language
Microsoft shares its process (and discarded ideas) for redone Windows 11 Start menu Read More »
Microsoft’s Windows updates over the last couple of years have mostly been focused on adding generative AI features to the operating system, including multiple versions of the Copilot assistant. Copilot has made it into Windows 11 (and even, to a
This month’s Windows updates are removing the Copilot app (accidentally) Read More »
One of the best mostly invisible updates in iOS 18 was Apple’s decision to finally implement the Rich Communications Services (RCS) communication protocol, something that is slowly helping to fix the generally miserable experience of texting non-iPhone users with an
RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats Read More »
