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How to stop the blurring of KDE’s logout/shutdown and lock screens
Voltaire's La Bégueule (1772) begins thus: “Dans ses écrits un sage Italien / Dit que le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” (The better is the enemy of the good.) Previously,…
Introducing an installable custom KDE Live ISO based on AlmaLinux 9.3 with kernel 6.1 from ELRepo
A bit of context: Notwithstanding the Red Hat scandal, it just so happened that, after having used several other distros on my 2021 HP ProDesk 400 G6 Desktop Mini PC…
Vremea laptop-urilor și upgrade-urilor ieftine
În momentul în care mi se semnalase știrea potrivit căreia cererea slabă de PC-uri și tablete forțează companiile să reducă prețurile, eu tocmai profitasem, zic eu, de acest fenomen. Și…
Hibernation in Manjaro—For the Lucky Ones
Hibernation in Linux is for many years already no longer a priority for distro maintainers, kernel maintainers, video driver maintainers, and so on. Currently, the only distro that explicitly supports…
5 months into Manjaro: harmless yet unacceptable breakage
I installed Manjaro XFCE on my new HP ProDesk 400 G6 Desktop Mini PC on March 14, and it worked flawlessly and without any incident until today, August 25, when…
The viral game that makes you feel smart: Wordle
I wanted to resist this viral crap (because crap it is, alright), but in the end, what the heck, we're all humans. I fail to understand why Wordle is such…
Windscribe VPN: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
When I wrote The VPN Myth half a year ago, I expressed my preference for Windscribe VPN, which includes features such as , a customizable advanced DNS and IP level…
No more quality for the peripherals Made in China
All the keyboards are Made in China, and all the mice are Made in China, so what's new? What's new is that since 2016-2018, the quality of them all is…
Linux Apps: The failure of Foliate
Reading books in the ePub format is one of the major technological breakthroughs as far as I am concerned (did I tell you about my 25k ePub files?). I couldn't…
Linux Apps: There is Everything in Linux! (It’s called FSearch…)
Whoever doesn't know David Carpenter's Everything doesn't know what they're missing. Whoever relies on Windows' search feature is an ignorant, a naive, a lazy person, or a moron. Most people…
The “joys” of systemd in Fedora XFCE
No, I am not part of the religious “systemd is evil” war. I won't be using Devuan, and the fact that MX Linux defaults to sysvinit is actually a disadvantage…
The dumbification of package management in Linux
This was bound to happen. When a bunch of smart idiots (sic!), and all kinds of narcissistic, arrogant YouTube icons and influencers are more important than the other people, this…
Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux
Since I was using almost exclusively laptops since 2001, I failed to notice that in Linux, suspend-to-disk (hibernation) lost momentum, as everyone is using suspend-to-RAM (sleep). This is a huge…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 8: Lubuntu, Fedora 35, and more
I procrastinate a lot (good to know I'm a pro at something), but after a couple of weeks of pondering, here I am, trying to recall and report my recent…
Do they want me to stop using computers altogether?
In the long run, we're all dead. Meanwhile, can we still enjoy life and computers, or should we bend to the new religions, including the containerization of everything? Containers might…
SPECIAL: You Don’t Even Know How Terrible Your Linux Distro Is!
Long time no see, so I'm going to synthesize here the experiences and the epiphanies I had with Linux in the last couple of months. You should be at least…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 7: Just some thoughts…
...based on the reading of the latest DistroWatch Weekly issue, namely DWW Issue 925: Linux Mint : the Beta already was solid. I checked again all the flavors (I've put…
Linus 1, Anti-Vaxxers 0
There are issues on which I agree with Linus Torvalds, issues on which I have a different opinion than his, and issues I couldn't care less about. Here's one instance…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 6: The death of the scrollbar
Only an idiot would need proofs of the utmost idiocy that infested every single UI concept of the last ~10 years, but "the case of the missing scrollbars" needs a…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 5: The gaiety of having the choice
As I mentioned recently, I don't recommend any Linux distro specifically, because someone's preferences are determined by their hardware and software needs, their tastes regarding UX or ergonomics, and other…