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Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?

March 3, 2026 Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?2026-03-06T20:28:48+01:00 5 Comments Budgie, Dedoimedo, ergonomics, GNOME, KDE, Linux, MS-DOS, SPECIAL, systemd, tiling, WinBoat

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…

The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!

July 3, 2024 The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!2024-12-31T00:35:37+01:00 22 Comments apocalypse, Chimera, DesktopBSD, FreeBSD, GhostBSD, Linux, longread, NetBSD, NomadBSD, OpenBSD, PC-BSD, systemd

The BSDs, especially FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, are far from being dead. The problem is that they never targeted the desktop users, especially not the laptop users. Here's what…

Is systemd cancer? A reignited debate

June 24, 2024 Is systemd cancer? A reignited debate2024-06-24T22:56:21+01:00 5 Comments apocalypse, Linux, longread, systemd

I thought it's going to be a slow, uneventful Monday. As it turned out, I had a lot to read. It all started from the first comment of today's DWW.…

Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The Reg: Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks. Carl Richell: Today, I met…” Mar 11, 00:55
Béranger on I might not be human, after all: “Indeed, it was painful to choose between such “masterpieces.”” Mar 10, 22:20
Jeo on I might not be human, after all: “Both human and AI written passages offered for evaluation sound artificial and pretentious to me. That is no good quality…” Mar 10, 21:50
Béranger on AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE: “Her, who? Her? as machines age, it gets worse over time. With a separate /home partition, the OS can be…” Mar 10, 19:38
HAL on AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE: “Ubuntu? Would you like to go with her, given her (possible? probable?) future direction? 😳 Well, Fedora… pff, but maybe…” Mar 10, 19:34
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Narratives: Trump’s vs. Iran’s. Trump: Trump is speaking about Iran again in Florida, a couple of hours after saying the…” Mar 9, 22:51
Drath on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “I genuinely enjoy AI music, though not the youtube streaming stuff, but weekly tops on suno and udio. That is…” Mar 9, 11:07
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky was a true Nostradamus!” Mar 8, 20:50
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “I very much liked JFS myself! But you already knew that.” Mar 8, 20:27
HAL on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “In the past, I used XFS and liked it, but I also used JFS, which I preferred. I never had…” Mar 8, 20:26
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I’d rather believe you’re masochistic… or maybe you invented a new religion, and you stick to it. This is not…” Mar 8, 20:12
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Believe me, I’m a big fan of the K.I.S.S. principle. What you consider (in theory) “unnecessary complications,” for me (in…” Mar 8, 19:15
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “George Carlin is eternal!” Mar 8, 14:56
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I’m mostly focused on unnecessary complications. Are you familiar with The Incredible Machine, or you’re too young for that? You…” Mar 8, 14:52
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Ok, just a few more clarifications based on daily technology use: a) IMHO, you’re very focused on the performance issue…” Mar 8, 14:48
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I asked Kimi about native booting from a VHDX. Its answer includes, among other things: The bootloader (bootmgr) uses a…” Mar 8, 10:49
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “This is merely the “Australia syndrome”: censoring the access to social networks. But Carl Richell’s statement applies here, too: “The…” Mar 8, 10:20
Aldus on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Raed Arafat isn’t falling behind either. He was ridiculed in Romania, but it’s bizarre how suddenly all the governments of…” Mar 8, 09:09
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Fair points. But what a twisted design to have Windows use a VHD/VHDX file instead of a partition. Not only…” Mar 8, 07:05
Aldus on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Okay, I see you’re strongly opinionated about this, which I can’t be. Because, just like you, I’ve never tried this…” Mar 8, 05:22
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way (Phoronix): “XFS came out on top followed by EXT4, F2FS, and…” Mar 8, 02:47
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I asked Kimi: VHD/VHDX with dynamic disk allocation: I don’t understand how this works. On a normal filesystem, say an…” Mar 8, 02:27
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: ““whenever you reinstall Windows (or install it on a new PC)” – I do not (re)install Windows. Like, ever. Maybe…” Mar 8, 01:08
Aldus on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I really like the system described by VRBF. I’ve never used it myself, but it looks excellent: you create the…” Mar 8, 01:03
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “The NYT, about Iranian President’s Apology: Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian president, had just apologized on state television on Saturday morning…” Mar 8, 01:01
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “System76 on Age Verification Laws is an excellent read! I don’t care about their hardware and I dislike their COSMIC…” Mar 8, 00:13
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “For flash memory-based disks (NVMe, SSD), the overhead of writing to a file is practically negligible. It’s about the raw…” Mar 7, 21:05
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Ok, understood. But to prevent anyone from coming here and getting incorrect or imprecise information, some clarifications: 1. BootICE appears…” Mar 7, 19:23
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “It just occurred to me that what these bastards want really requires control at the OS level. It’s not enough…” Mar 7, 16:28
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “1. I can’t even find an OFFICIAL SITE for BootICE. Only fuck-ups. Pathetic. 2. Writing to a file should be…” Mar 7, 16:14
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “An important observation: when you natively boot from a VHD, the only “virtual” thing is the C: drive. Everything else…” Mar 7, 16:00
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “But how the fuck are you booting them, managing them, installing them? An OS should be installed FROM a booting…” Mar 7, 03:16
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I have to admit that this is the usual reaction when I talk about this topic (“What the heck is…” Mar 7, 03:04
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “How about these ayatollahs? As of Jan. 6, 2026.” Mar 7, 00:14
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Windows Server or Windows IoT LTSC. But I didn’t even know that there is such a thing as VHDX with…” Mar 6, 23:51
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “The desktop versions of Windows (Win 10, Win 11) are very unstable and bloated. The most robust Windows edition is the Server…” Mar 6, 23:50
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “This is completely off-topic, but I’m leaving it here. Notes: 1. I don’t care about such hubs; I actually dislike…” Mar 6, 17:28
dan on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “that hub was relevant because it has accompanied software for turning on and off individual ports issuing commands from pc.…” Mar 6, 17:21
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Those products didn’t seem relevant to the case. Look, you could have even posted Amazon links! I would have removed…” Mar 6, 15:05
dan on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “But it was not an AD to that hardware (i gave 2 different links to 2 different products and 1…” Mar 6, 15:03
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Those comments were advertising to hardware products, and I deleted them by hand.” Mar 6, 14:07
dan on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Hi! I have two comments in moderation on thread about “beyond compare”. Am I being blocked or they were slipped…” Mar 6, 14:03
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Ukraine, Gaza (and the West Bank), Iran (and Lebanon): Putin, Netanyahu, Trump. 3 modern Hitlers. AlJAzeera: “Today is worse than…” Mar 6, 00:42
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Based on the 40-50 relevant articles read on some international websites, I could write even a book about the current…” Mar 5, 11:35
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Let me add 3 tiny points as a comment: ❶ Question for the fans of Arch and pacman/Pamac: how is…” Mar 4, 22:52
Aldus on Sam Altman in India, and other AI news: “I’m not sure where they got this chart from. Maybe from here, although the date of the last update is…” Mar 4, 13:22
Aldus on Sam Altman in India, and other AI news: “Sam Altman backpedals as ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295%” Mar 4, 09:29
Béranger on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “N-ar fi chiar prima oară că se întâmplă. Bibi știe cât de prost e Donald. Mersi pentru semnalare!” Mar 4, 02:00
Aldus on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Așadar, SUA au atacat Iranul pentru că știau că Israelul va ataca și cumva le-a fost forțată mâna? Rubio says…” Mar 4, 01:57
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Guess what? Effective IMMEDIATELY, I have ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to provide, at a very reasonable…” Mar 3, 21:35
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “La mierda naranja anuncia que cortará “todo el comercio con España” por la negativa de Pedro Sánchez a que EE.UU.…” Mar 3, 20:32
Béranger on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Nu am. Sunt zeci de milioane sau sute de milioane de canale YT pe jdemii de teme. Nu le pot…” Mar 3, 20:29
alecs on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Ce părere ai despre Prof. Jiang Xueqin (@PredictiveHistory)?” Mar 3, 20:26
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “In his post To update blobs or not to update blobs, Matthew Garrett inserted this gem: At some point I…” Mar 3, 17:35
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “FT: Iran executes Khamenei’s plan to spread regional war: Iranian forces have launched a plan devised by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…” Mar 3, 17:15
Béranger on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Ce nu a spus Pătraru e cum s-a format Hezbollah, sprijinită de Iran. Iată cum: The 1982 Lebanon War was…” Mar 3, 02:38
Béranger on I needed to vent about Calibre: “How can Calibre be the number 1 e-book editor when it has so many programming errors, as if it were…” Mar 3, 00:00
Béranger on eMag Marketplace: loc de luat țeapă de la chinezii din Lyon!: “Un dobitoc de influențăr care a luat și el țeapă de pe eMag cu SSD-uri fake de 2TB, chipurile Samsung…” Mar 2, 22:51
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent: Allies of US in the Gulf bear brunt of Iran attacks (with a better title…” Mar 2, 16:35
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “UPDATE 3: A longer chat with Grok. Grok is inconsistent: first, it disagrees with me (so “Iran deserved it!”), but…” Mar 2, 13:50