Tag archives for Linux
Maybe I wasn’t wrong to hate PackageKit, after all
I hated PackageKit in 2008, then I got used to it as it became omnipresent, so I just ignored it. Most people have nothing against it (it’s for your security!)…
KDE Bug 342056: Thunar is still a great file manager
Phoronix, yesterday: KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times: Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files).…
AI and Linux: a bit of ranting
From the hundreds of URLs visited per week, here are a bunch of comments based on a very short selection of news from the last 3 weeks. I am unhappy…
The CCPA and the GDPR will eventually kill Linux
I don't expect people to read carefully the details that accompany the release of Debian 13.6. It's just a bunch of updates, right? Even I couldn't be bothered, but as…
Is Ubuntu LTS a bad choice?
A couple of recent news seem to show a new trend against basing a distro on Ubuntu LTS. Is this bad news, or rather a positive development? First, TUXEDO OS…
Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux
There is an open secret that a laptop’s battery life in Linux is worse than in Windows. At least, this was true for Win7-Win10, because Win11, I'm told, is worse,…
I’m so tired of all these “tech” news reports!
It’s been weeks since I last wrote something remotely related to technology, and there are several reasons for that. One of them is that I’ve been rather busy; another one…
Erik Dubois is still on steroids
Does anyone remember ArcoLinux, a distro now discontinued? I do. It was quite famous, much more than EndeavourOS is today, because it offered a bunch of different ISOs, each with…
GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows
While the new Lenovo placidly runs Debian 13 XFCE installed via Xebian Trixie (not Unstable), there’s still an Acer that has not received any Windows yet and runs MX XFCE.…
Did Gemini Pro really get that worse? 4 threads to test it!
I just had 3 conversations with Gemini Pro Extended Thinking. It all started from my refusal to watch two videos about Claude skills, but the first thread evolved into covering…
Fedora Linux just rejected the idea of an LTS kernel!
I had my suspicions that Fedora Linux is maintained by a bunch of morons who misinterpret or interpret too strictly Red Hat’s requirements, but now I have the proof that…
Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian
Since the home page of Xebian insists that this Debian blend (not derivative!), “with only a thin layer for artwork and configuration that differs from Debian,” is “based on Debian Unstable/sid,” I…
Is Debian the Answer?
What I meant is this: Is Debian the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? The context is that of a new Linux local privilege escalation…
Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies
① Someone felt contemplative... I was looking for a review of Argent Linux and I noticed this ad hoc philosophy at the end of a review of it in DistroWatch…
My Lenovo’s resume-after-sleep bug fixed in one minute
Somewhere, I mentioned the fact that my new, cheap but premium-finished Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 had a single issue under Kubuntu 26.04 LTS: resuming after sleep would break Bluetooth. I…
I’m with stupid technology
I want to summarily address a few topics I didn't want to write about, but given the overall feeling of being pissed off by everything (mostly politics, economy, and society),…
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. ① Artificial Idiocy at work?② Interlude #1: No Gemma, no…
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…