How-To Geek

I've spent a lot of time listening to music from a single smart speaker in my home office. While the sound quality is okay, there's only so much a single speaker can do. I recently acquired a ten-year-old hi-fi system, and the difference is night and day.

Linux Mint is known for being intuitive and beginner-friendly, but did you know it packs one of the most powerful gesture systems in the Linux ecosystem? Here's a closer look at Cinnamon’s built-in gestures and how they outshine other desktop environments.

Some iconic phones, like the iPhone 4, light the world on fire and have sales numbers to match. Others may not have sold as many units, but they’re no less beloved. Ask an Android user what the best looking phone of that era was, and most will tell you the same thing—the HTC One M7.

I don't know about you, but after some time using a normal Linux or Windows installation, I become pretty paranoid about what I have picked up along the way. I was often reinstalling my system just for peace of mind. Things like files, flaws in software, and even badly written web applications can expose you to enormous problems. Qubes is a game changer and persistently feels like a fresh system—here are three reasons why it puts my mind at ease.

Are you juggling multiple productivity apps just to stay on top of your work? Looking for a single app that can handle all your productivity needs? Well, here’s a free and open-source app that has replaced Trello, Toggl, and TickTick in my daily workflow—and it’s aptly called Super Productivity.

Smart homes may introduce apps and voice assistants, but buttons aren't going away as a central way to control lights, fans, and everything else. Flic Duo shows how helpful a smart button can be, and it’s absolutely worth adding a device like this to your smart home. The problem is, this probably isn't the one you want.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is widely regarded as the best gaming desktop processor available today, with its 3D V-Cache providing an extra performance boost in many games and applications. Now, there's a slightly better version: meet the Ryzen 7 9850X3D.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is widely regarded as the best gaming desktop processor available today, with its 3D V-Cache providing an extra performance boost in many games and applications. Now, there's a slightly better version: meet the Ryzen 7 9850X3D.

The AMD Ryzen AI Max series is already an excellent option for compact and powerful PCs, and now AMD introducing more of them at CES 2026. The company just revealed the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 and AI Max+ 388, coming to a compact PC near you.

The AMD Ryzen AI Max series is already an excellent option for compact and powerful PCs, and now AMD introducing more of them at CES 2026. The company just revealed the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 and AI Max+ 388, coming to a compact PC near you.

HP just revealed the EliteBoard G1a Next Gen AI PC at CES 2026, a device that crams a full AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processor directly into a keyboard chassis. HP is calling this the world's first "AI PC built into a keyboard."

HP just revealed the EliteBoard G1a Next Gen AI PC at CES 2026, a device that crams a full AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processor directly into a keyboard chassis. HP is calling this the world's first "AI PC built into a keyboard."

AMD has just revealed the Ryzen AI 400 series at CES 2026. It's the company's new lineup of premium laptop processors, with a Zen 5 architecture, CPU boost clocks up to 5.2 GHz, and even more TOPS.

Dell has announced the new Alienware 16X Aurora at CES 2026, one of the company's first gaming laptops with anti-glare OLED screens. Beyond gaming, it could also be a potential MacBook Pro competitor if a Windows is a hard requirement.

If your monitor is connected to your PC via HDMI, you might want to consider switching to DisplayPort. While the two can be functionally the same if your monitor and graphics card both support HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort is often a better option.

ASUS is announcing the 2026 ROG Zephyrus Duo, a powerful dual-screen laptop that finally lets you draw directly on both its 3K OLED touch panels. This machine is rocking the Next Gen Intel Core Ultra Processor and can be configured with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.

ASUS has just announced its newest gaming desktop, the ROG G1000, and it comes with a full-color holographic display built right into the side panel. The visuals are made with the ROG AniMe Holo, a full-color hologram technology that blows RGB lighting out of the water.

HP's gaming brand, HyperX, just revealed an updated OMEN MAX 16 at CES 2026. It could be an impressive gaming laptop when it arrives, complete with hardware configurations up to an RTX 59090 graphics card, a 240Hz OLED screen, and improved cooling.

Acer is making an interesting hardware splash with the new Swift Go 16 AI, a flagship laptop centered around a touchpad that doubles as a drawing tablet for digital creators. This new generation of Copilot+ PCs is powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, but the 16-inch model takes things further.

Dell is bringing back its iconic XPS 14 and XPS 16 laptops for 2026, reversing the 'Dell Premium' name change that didn't really work out. You'll have to wait longer for an updated XPS 13, though.