Tag archives for Linux
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 hibernation by…
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 it broke.…
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 a viral…
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 blocker that…
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 something totally…
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 care less…
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 who use…
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 of that…
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 is what…
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 regression, and…
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 adventures in…
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 look optimal,…
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 as shocked…
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 them on…
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 though when…
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 succinct explanation.…
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 criteria; I…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 4: NOT trying Rocky Linux, after all
That's the quickest one: despite being enticed by Dedoimedo's articles (1·Rocky Linux 8 - Phoenix Tux; 2·Rocky Linux 8 & how to get better font clarity; 3·How to turn Rocky Linux 8…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 3: The Mint 20.2 Beta Triptych
This shouldn't be interpreted as if I'd suggest, support, or recommend any flavor of Linux Mint. Based on how things are in Linux in the last 15 of its 30 years of…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 2: Subpixel idiocy
Dedoimedo is the only guy in the known Universe who's pickier than I, and who constantly complains about the lack of contrast, the 1-pixel misalignment, and any other similar usability faults in…