Tag archives for Linux
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.…
SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian
① On Sept. 21, I said that Linux will soon be history for me. ② On Oct. 13, I found more proofs that Linux has become a joke. ③ On…
Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!
Correction: I didn’t even know about Claude Desktop for Windows and macOS! Or, if I knew, I guess I might have believed it was only available for paying customers. While…
Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?
As I was scratching my balls, I had this revelation: what if we are fools to want to install Win11 on CPUs that are officially unsupported? Sure, they're not supported…
Comics Kingdom Easy Browser
This is the sibling of the web version of the Comic Strip Browser for GoComics, which needed a counterpart for ComicsKingdom.com, which hosts the comics syndicated through King Features Syndicate,…
Comic Strip Browser in your browser!
Even myself, a huge fan of local, standalone apps, I have to admit that nowadays almost everything is a web app. And the Comic Strip Browser app, a PyQt6 software…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.3: new strips!
I released two new versions of my Comic Strip Browser one after another the same day. That's because 1.1.2 added 6 new strips, but 1.1.3 had to remove an older…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will make snaps unavoidable
Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, gave an interview to The Reg. The news are all bad, although some of the bad things won't happen that soon. But I'm saddened…
A €20 Linux tax: cui et quantum prodest?
After 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits and Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke, the post 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu…
📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…
No, this blog wasn’t hijacked. This comes from the author of 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits. But this is a public service to those…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.1: new features and new bugs!
Exactly three months ago, I wrote The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app! It was meant to introduce a PyQt6 Linux app for browsing a selection of…
Bluesabre is pathetic, and “the Xubuntu project” is retarded
Some readers might remember that, when I discussed the CVE-2021-32563 vulnerability in Thunar, I complained that Sean Davis (aka Bluesabre or bluesabredavis), who is both the Xubuntu Technical Lead and…
Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke
Let me remind you that for me… 2025 is “The Year Linux (on the Desktop) Died”: details in the post 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits,…
I still prefer VMware to VirtualBox
Everyone swears by VirtualBox for Type 2 virtualization, most likely because it has always been free. But it's a complete piece of crap, and never was anything but a pain…