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If you have an old Windows laptop gathering dust, there are plenty of creative ways to make it useful again. You could turn it into a second monitor, repurpose it as a file server, or even convert it ...

My recent column about discarding rather than upgrading a 5-year-old Windows PC brought a protest from some fans of Linux, the alternative PC operating system. They argue that it's better to keep an ...

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