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Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE

April 25, 2026 Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE2026-05-07T11:14:55+01:00 6 Comments Bluetooth, bugs, Debian, Dedoimedo, DESERT, Dumbo, Gemini, GNOME, idiocy, KDE, Kimi, Kubuntu, Linux, longread, MX, NTFS, SPECIAL, Ubuntu, xebian, XFCE, Xubuntu

This post is an attempt to summarize my experiences and adventures with Linux from the last two or three weeks. Before I finalized this post, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS had been…

I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?

February 8, 2026 I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?2026-02-19T00:40:44+01:00 9 Comments Acer, Debian, DESERT, Lenovo, MX, Soplos, xebian

After the last iteration through my tables from The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM, I concocted another table, meant to help me really take a…

Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall

December 20, 2025 Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall2026-04-25T01:01:14+01:00 1 Comment Debian, Debusine, DESERT, Linux, MX, pacstall, Ubuntu, XFCE

Last time, I produced yet another Bible-long story of anything and everything, where I ended up stranded in MX for lacking the nerve to start over with Debian XFCE proper.…

Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “Nope. And I know about the DPL. You are aware that Devuan could not exist without Debian, right?” May 10, 21:08
Fried Rice Eater on Is Debian the Answer?: “Is Debian the answer? No, no it is not. They just elected a female DEI hire from India who says…” May 10, 21:06
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “In a different YT video (by a fan) I noticed the following comments from the band (which confirms what has…” May 10, 20:16
Reverie72 on Is Debian the Answer?: “GNOME and KDE are only good on machines with 8 GB of RAM or more. For machines with less than…” May 10, 13:53
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “the automatic handling and recall of external display positions and resolutions. I am that much of a Luddite that I…” May 10, 12:46
Cozy on Is Debian the Answer?: ““why bother with something more complex?” I can’t argue with that! XFCE is what I originally used, but was also…” May 10, 02:54
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “Oh, so you’re back on Debian. Firefox as a Flatpak is a bad idea. This time, I even intend to…” May 10, 00:47
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “I didn’t, but as long as XFCE runs just fine under Debian 13 (including Bluetooth), why bother with something more…” May 10, 00:19
Cozy on Is Debian the Answer?: “Have you tried KDE Plasma on Debian 13? I’ve been running that for a while now and so far it’s…” May 10, 00:16
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “Mission fucking accomplished. Including blueman ttf-mscorefonts-installer libavcodec-extra gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-vaapi libdvdcss2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread8 ffmpeg yt-dlp youtubedl-gui nala fortune fsearch…” May 9, 21:56
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “Absolutely. I’m usually overcritical. Grumpy-level, angry-level critical. Dedoimedo had some rather severe issues with Kubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, and he’s…” May 9, 19:23
0din on Is Debian the Answer?: “You’re being a bit too critical of Kubuntu (26.04 LTS) now, it seems to me. 🙂 Yes, I also quickly…” May 9, 17:11
Béranger on Is Debian the Answer?: “Oh, this is über-ironic: Microsoft Defender Security Research Team: Active attack: Dirty Frag Linux vulnerability expands post-compromise risk. Yeah, use…” May 9, 14:23
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “In the new composition after “the big betrayal”: The Graystones and Evan Riley — While My Guitar Gently Weeps cover…” May 9, 12:04
edel on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “Agree 100% with “hoped that China would come up with something, but they didn’t”. But I have a feeling they…” May 7, 11:48
Béranger on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “I too hoped that China would come up with something, but they didn’t. Deepin tries too much to look like…” May 7, 11:12
Béranger on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “I added a couple of small updates.” May 7, 11:07
edel on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “Oh, did not know of 6.17 coming with Ubuntu 24.04… at least, with those added drivers I hope they are…” May 7, 10:53
Béranger on Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!: “Dacă lipsește flautul, generăm o tobă.” May 7, 10:40
Béranger on Grim book 1 — a review like no other!: “Would you still care about my thoughts?” May 7, 10:38
Aldus on Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!: “A talk with ChatGPT.” May 7, 10:38
Wiktor Miesok on Grim book 1 — a review like no other!: “Book 2 dropped a while ago. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQJHTNR6 Wonder what your thoughts would be on this one.” May 7, 10:37
Béranger on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “6.17 is the default (HWE) kernel in Ubuntu 24.04.4. TUXEDO might have added drivers for their hardware, but other than…” May 7, 10:28
edel on Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies: “I mentioned Tuxedo OS before, so I don’t want to give the impression I am fully advocating for it, but…” May 7, 10:24
Béranger on I never saw anything as stupid as Git (and GitHub): “I didn’t approve a short comment that recommended that I read the Pro Git book (I guess; it said “the…” May 6, 21:16
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 2.5.0 was released: • Added: Animal Crackers, The Argyle Sweater, Aunty Acid, Baby Blues, Baldo, Bliss, Broom Hilda, Close…” May 5, 01:23
Béranger on I’m with stupid technology: “You need better glasses! 👓” May 5, 01:13
HAL on I’m with stupid technology: “Yes, absolutely, but I have not notice that on the Sony screen. It might depend on the screen.” May 5, 01:11
Béranger on I’m with stupid technology: “In theory, yes. In practice, if I see COLORED fringes FOR BLACK TEXT ON WHITE, I get mad! So no,…” May 4, 23:32
HAL on I’m with stupid technology: “I tend to use your setup as well for all. Except I’m wondering if RGB wouldn’t be OK for subpixel.” May 4, 23:14
Béranger on I’m with stupid technology: “I don’t care anymore. Font rendering in Linux was worse than in Windows, then it improved, then it worsened again.…” May 4, 20:45
ConEst on I’m with stupid technology: “Life was simpler when I did not know about gtk, qt, wayland and so on. Shame about Budgie though -…” May 4, 19:58
Béranger on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “I updated the 1st fix, and now it works again to bypass GoComics’ paywall! It also works in Firefox for…” May 4, 11:27
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “In “XFCE as a backup solution,” I said that Xubuntu had some issues. Now Jeff Siegel (wow, not Jesse Smith!)…” May 4, 09:50
Béranger on I’m with stupid technology: “I’m not sure about Solus, but they killed Budgie. Budgie 11 will be based on Qt6 with KDE Frameworks, and…” May 4, 09:30
ConEst on I’m with stupid technology: “Linux distros feeling more bloated than Windows is so true though. And apparently there are no good light distros to…” May 4, 09:21
Béranger on Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!: “Massive update from Reddit with many new hallucinated images!” May 2, 21:45
alecs on Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!: “We’re curing cancer.” May 2, 17:30
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “OMG, Dedoimedo liked Kubuntu 26.04! Kubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon review – Surprisingly nice (so far, I’d add.) The hardware used:…” May 1, 20:33
Béranger on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “Nyarch KDE 26.04 managed to make KDE unbearable. It’s worse than the previous GNOME 25.04.4 edition. (I didn’t try the…” May 1, 03:32
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “There’s no chance that Linux Lite ever becomes something decent. Version 8.0 rc1 is worse than ever: it has a…” May 1, 03:30
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “I was quite happy with gemini-3-flash-preview in Gemini CLI, but here’s a complaint on Reddit: Is it just me, or…” May 1, 02:50
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “Linux Lite 8.0 rc1 is out. The torrent is faster. I should give it a try. It might prove a…” Apr 30, 23:24
Béranger on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “Ouch, Nyarch now has a KDE edition, too! The release is labeled 26.04. Should I try it?” Apr 30, 23:20
Béranger on The golden age of free LLM chatbots might soon end + BONUS: “● This hystery was a false alert: Anthropic just quietly locked Opus behind a paywall-within-a-paywall for Pro users in Claude…” Apr 30, 17:40
Béranger on Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile: “Spectickles by Bill Abbott, on colors:” Apr 30, 16:18
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “Frankly, I miss XFCE. Let me give you two examples. ① Wayland is absurd. I discovered that xkill doesn’t work…” Apr 29, 23:32
Not Applicable on Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?: “Might wanna take a look into GTK2-NG, a newly started fork continuing from Stefan11111’s version of GTK2 which attempts to…” Apr 29, 08:39
Béranger on Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE: “🤦‍♂️They fucking cannot keep Ubuntu just an OS; they have to make it an AI platform! The future of AI…” Apr 28, 21:53
Béranger on Why are people using Brave Search?: “So Brave is not reliable: “Share public link: Anyone with this link can view this conversation. Once shared, this conversation…” Apr 27, 08:10
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “● The Graystones flew Evan and Jake in for another set of covers: Journey’s, Lights… Cover by The Graystones ft.…” Apr 26, 23:35
Aldus on Why are people using Brave Search?: “The shared conversation is not accessible. The page opens blank. Goggles seems like a nice feature.” Apr 26, 23:15
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The same Carl Richell, with an update: The amended CO SB51 bill with a strong exemption for open source distros…” Apr 25, 21:04
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “OK, so I needed to update the list of 3 chatbots in current use.” Apr 25, 04:05
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “💡 Testing to see whether a chatbot gives “rizz” as one of the possible answers to this prompt: “There was…” Apr 25, 02:09
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “I outsmarted both Grok and Qwen! I needed a solution to a technical (web-related) problem. Grok Fast was completely useless…” Apr 25, 02:08
HAL on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Same here. Exactly the same.” Apr 24, 23:42
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Grok tries to piss me off. I wasn’t able to get a non-Fast answer in days! Maybe the days of…” Apr 24, 23:30
HAL on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “It’s difficult to find a “small, snappy everyday AI chatbot” that’s without flaws. Unfortunately, that’s true. 😞 Nevertheless, it seems…” Apr 24, 17:49
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Nuance: Kimi Instant, even in version 2.6, can be too stupid, and it might try to reason by looping endlessly…” Apr 24, 00:10