Tag archives for Linux
SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (No happy ending yet…)
In my various rants about Linux, I leaned towards Debian, as described for instance here. After I purchased another cheap but very decent laptop, I declared that it will be…
Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!
Nicolas Kovacs, a veteran open-source IT expert and Linux instructor, and long-time advocate of CentOS (as well as Slackware), has authored four books, beginning with CentOS 5.3 and ending with…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS should be renamed Idiocracy Linux
I said it before: the adoption of GNOME 3 as “the” desktop was a severe betrayal of Ubuntu’s user base. But now Canonical goes even further in insulting the intelligence…
Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!
I'm not fiercely hating snaps—I’m only annoyed by them. A lot, but once they’re there, and Canonical doesn’t seem to give up (snaps won't share the fate of upstart, Mir,…
Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend
There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…
The usual mental retard in Linux
Nothing special, just the same old. Some “error while loading shared libraries” crap. Out of curiosity, I wanted to try 4K Video Downloader Plus under Debian 13. The download page…
The magic of Fedora Linux
In Fedora XFCE Rawhide (Fedora-Xfce-Live-Rawhide-20260129.n.0.x86_64.iso, impossible to download from dl.fedoraproject.org, so I got it from the Stuttgart mirror): $ sudo dnf install yaru-theme Updating and loading repositories: Repositories loaded. Package…
He’s not right, but he’s not exactly wrong, either
This is a quick and belated answer to Dedoimedo’s Why Ubuntu? And the answer is, why not. It's not a rebuttal. He’s not necessarily wrong. But he can't fundamentally be…
Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups
There aren't many kinds of software I'm willing to pay for. VPNs are one such category. Dictionary apps (or online subscriptions to dictionaries) might be a second one. And Beyond…
I never thought I’ll prefer ONLYOFFICE
I never liked ONLYOFFICE. I hated that it has a unique binary that you have to launch, instead of separate apps for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. I found its ALL-CAPS…
Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!
Remember how I said that I have Windows software from 1999-2000 (originally on CD-ROM) that still runs under Win7-Win10-Win11, and how the Linux mob couldn’t care less about backward compatibility?…
Quick reads—7 links exactly
To supplement my previous set of links on Linux and AI, here's a cursory selection from what I read this morning via my RSS subscriptions in Capy Reader. Plus a…
AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026
Resolutions are meant to be broken, but I’m trying to simplify my life. I intend to stop the distro-hopping and even to stop caring about any new distros. Keeping up…
Dedoimedo honored me!
Despite not having been gracious with him, Dedoimedo included my blog to his hall of fame: Greatest sites on the Internet. Latest entries: January 2026: Homo Ludditus, JWZ I quote…
Wanderings around Debian
This is a long overdue, insignificant post on some wanderings I had while exploring some other distros based on Debian or Ubuntu. International events have delayed its writing. It all…
Upscaler: upscaling the easy way
As I was browsing Flathub, it recommended Upscaler to me. Its website is proud to announce to the world that the developer of this app is a mentally insane individual:…
Linux system cleaners, you said? Yeah, not a big fan of them
I stopped using CCleaner for Windows years ago, even before Avast purchased Piriform. Today, everything owned by Avast is pure garbage, but there are many ways to perform some form…
SJVN and his dogs got soft-headed
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is possibly the most famous business and technology journalist ever. I used to read him in BYTE and PC Magazine in the heyday of the PC. Lately,…
Bad news in Ubuntu land, Nemo was retarded, and more
This is one of my shorter posts on Linux, and it contains 4 topics. Bad news regarding Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and its flavors From the mailing list for technical-board --…
Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall
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.…