Tag archives for Linux
Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma
On March 10, they released Fedora Linux 44 Beta, the first solid opportunity for people to see what's going to be new in Fedora 44, once released sometime in April.…
AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE
I have an uncertainty relative to the opportunity of sticking to Fedora over using Ubuntu, and this goes beyond the obvious. The obvious is this: Should I want stability and…
Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!
Just as I thought that the worst thing that could happen to humankind and the worst possible thing in America was Donald J. Trump, wokism in Socialist California struck again!…
Curiouser and curiouser…
Why do I feel the need to comment on Dedoimedo’s latest post? Well, because I disagree with a fundamental premise that led to a questionable conclusion. It has to do…
Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?
Random musings triggered by Dedoimedo's recent Linux, product and the art of essence, a philosophic piece on the “tragic self-sabotage that hampers the potential growth and proliferation of the Linux…
Arguing with Grok 4.20 (Beta) about Fedora
Since Grok seems to be very generous with me on its free layer these days, I thought of chatting with it about some aspects I never quite understood or accepted…
SJVN and the fragile bazaar
In a recent opinion column in The Reg, SJVN describes a severe problem that open-source software is facing today, namely the burnout of the (unpaid) software developers: Feeling the burn:…
One year later, DWW is run by the same shitheads
I know I'm banned from commenting on DistroWatch Weekly. It's been years since I was not allowed to leave even the most innocent comment there, regardless of the name used,…
SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?)
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…