A stunning piece of design to rival any Apple offering, and the price is surprisingly reasonable

Stuart Turton spends the third day of his one week odyssey with Linux, fighting Fedora monitor hassles, wishing for Ubuntu at work and discovers that forums can be a Linux user's new best friend.

Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative 'safety' of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over.

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

Optimise & cleanse your system Registry

Defragment your hard drives

More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

There’s so much to like about this package that it might just be worth switching operating systems to get hold of it.

Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..