Tag archives for Linux
Dumbo SPECIAL: Crappy Wayland—stupid with GNOME, better but imperfect with KDE
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…
Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce
Once again, I had this post in drafts for a week! It's time to put it in a readable form. Artificial Idiocy at work? After the Claude Code leak, all…
ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!
It all started with a vibe-coded PyQt6 app that refused to build or to run under Windows, but it worked satisfactorily under Linux. It navigated in the archives of 15…
On April 6, 1992, Microsoft released Windows 3.1. Now, we have GNOME 50.
Prior to that, Windows 3.0 was released on May 22, 1990, but people didn't like it that much. Microsoft decided that the presence of Microsoft Reversi impeded sales, so it…
On public demand: quick RAM figures
I’ve been asked how memory-hungry Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is on my customized installation. The lazy way, gnome-system-monitor (for which I needed to add the CTRL+SHIFT+ESC shortcut because there wasn’t any)…
Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?
It was literally two days ago that I wrote: I told you that Ubuntu MATE is as good as dead, didn’t I? It was in the context of Ubuntu MATE…
Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu
This is a very short follow-up to How I chose to become Dumbo. What happened is that I installed Ubuntu 26.04 LTS pre-release (Daily Build from March 16) on the…
How I chose to become Dumbo
Anyone remember where I left off in my blog post about Nyarch Linux? I planned to install Nyarch GNOME on my new Lenovo, using Nyarch Customize and Dash to Panel…
Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!
There is a crazy Arch-based distro made for crazy people and featuring crazy utilities, including a sui generis AI assistant, yet nobody seems to be talking about it in the…
Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?
I know that Linux distros stopped observing the KISS principle long ago, and systemd is one of the best examples of this loss of direction. In my book, both SELinux…
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…