My favourite newspaper trick is when they give it WORLD EXCLUSIVE! and then mention how they sourced their information from a foreign TV or magazine interview.
Nobody is by the looks of it:
https://twitter.com/TheSunNewspaper/status/441927170647392256
"Completely unfounded rumours about a footballer coming out in the Sun on Sunday - only believe stories when you see them in the paper."
You can do near enough anything you can do with Windows and more, just that it may need a little more coaxing which is pretty much what you accept with a Linux distribution.