Archives for May, 2021
I had forgotten why I shouldn’t trust Ubuntu… but neither many other distros!
Security, security, security! Patches, patches, patches! This happened to me before, but poor me, I forgot about it, for it's been years since I wasn't into Ubuntu anymore. Updated with…
Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?
After many explorations, hesitations and tribulations; and after having thought that an Arch derivative with KDE is the way; and after having later considered that more desktop stability would be…
A Community Experiment in Two Linux Distros
Master of Disaster or not, I have a history of making Open-Source developers, fans, or just users call me names on forums, on social networks, or elsewhere. I know that…
How the Internet Age Has Bent Some People’s Minds
If I still needed an example of how the Internet made people stupid, even the smartest of them, today I was just served with one of the best examples. It…
Try not to get depressed these days!
Even before the pandemic, the number of ways the world is broken would have justified a moderate depression, but now things seem utterly unbearable. I was about to start writing…
Is there a midway between Long-Time Support and quicksand?
Before trying to explain the question, I can already tell you that the answer is negative. The so-called midway was possible when people were using Win98, WinXP or Win7. Nowadays,…
Quick Experiment in “Improving” Linux Lite
Even at its iteration , Linux Lite is based on Ubuntu 20·04 LTS, and therefore, just like Mint, only has XFCE 4·14. It's stupid to wait until after April 2025…
Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTube
Since the pandemic, I noticed more and more YouTube channels of people likely to be 50+, 60+, or even older, who rant about Linux (not all the time, but still).…
The VPN Myth
I'm sick of how many people are still believing that, if they use an open public network without a VPN, their credentials might be stolen. Smart, educated people believe this…
The Never-Ending Story Goes On!
Nobody ever reads it, but my previous post about COVID-19 got way too long after several updates, and to go post chapter THIRTY-SEVEN I decided to start a new post.…
A Glimpse from the Past
It was early 2008, and XFCE was at version Distros such as Zenwalk, Vector, Wolvix, GoblinX, KateOS, SAM Linux, and Mandriva, were still with us. I just rediscovered an old…
What Reddit has taught me about Arch Linux
It's all about rice (verb). And tiling window managers. And stupid gamers. Stupid people, more generally. What are some decent people doing on Reddit?! Why are so many hipsters using…