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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?2026-03-18T14:10:38+01:00 8 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…

KDE5, KDE6, tiling and other rants

June 23, 2024 KDE5, KDE6, tiling and other rants2026-03-06T20:35:13+01:00 11 Comments Dedoimedo, GNOME, KDE, Linux, longread, tiling, YouTube

To some extent, this is a sort of follow-up to the previous extra-long feature Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded), which proved to be too complex a…

What Reddit has taught me about Arch Linux

May 7, 2021 What Reddit has taught me about Arch Linux2021-06-02T09:33:15+01:00 5 Comments arch, archinstall, ArcoLinux, Cinnamon, KDE, Linux, MATE (desktop), rebornos, salientos, tiling

It's all about rice (verb). And tiling window managers. And stupid gamers. Stupid people, more generally. What are some decent people doing on Reddit?! Why are so many hipsters using…

I tried to understand GNOME, and I failed at COSMIC tiling too; could I have some MATE again?

April 19, 2021 I tried to understand GNOME, and I failed at COSMIC tiling too; could I have some MATE again?2021-08-17T10:36:17+01:00 5 Comments bugs, GNOME, Linux, MATE (desktop), pop, tiling, Ubuntu

Against any logic, and mostly out of esthetic and usability curiosity, I wanted to try GNOME. Not version 40 yet, but 3·38 in Pop!_OS, with the tiling manager Pop Shell…

Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Another tiny update lists two TUI (Terminal User Interface) apps: systemd-manager-tui and isd.” Mar 18, 14:12
Béranger on Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?: “The fun goes on: Yanis Varoufakis joined Chris Hedges and foreboded evil: How the Iran War Will Cause a Global…” Mar 17, 14:15
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Dictator Lukashenko’s prophecy from one year ago was top-notch. Here’s what he answered to Steve Rosenberg (at 11:10): You bashed…” Mar 17, 14:09
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Update on KDE Plasma 6.6.2 in Fedora 43: With all the updates available as of March 17, Plasma is still…” Mar 17, 02:29
Béranger on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “UPDATE: The Dash to Panel miracle! In which I discovered that enabling “Ungroup applications” not only separates active windows from…” Mar 17, 02:14
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Oh, my, now that you mention it, I had some fun reading these Fedora bug reports: Bug 2394999 – gnome-epub-thumbnailer…” Mar 16, 22:08
Béranger on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “No, no, what I meant is: “as customizable by using Nyarch Customize and with other minor customizations by hand (Thunar,…” Mar 16, 21:22
HAL on Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!: “could a customized GNOME, supplemented with a decent file manager, be usable by those who hate GNOME? That should probably…” Mar 16, 21:19
monogram on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Hi! Do you know about the new unhinged idiotic GNOME’s “sandboxed” glycin thumbnailers and loaders infecting the gdk-pixbuf lib and…” Mar 16, 18:16
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The Resistance is shaping up! John McCardle, IT Specialist at NASA, has created Ageless Linux, a Debian derivative, in order…” Mar 16, 13:47
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “As much as I despise Jesse Smith, he’s right in All about age verification laws and Linux: You might be…” Mar 16, 07:26
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “It’s partly fault of my usage as well (maybe). I compress my files and upload and use handbrake too sometimes…” Mar 15, 19:22
Jeo on No luck, plenty of fun, and you’ll definitely die! (You, not them.): “You can’t beat what is in everybody’s head already. They just told it. Clearly. And the conclusion is clear, too:…” Mar 15, 17:00
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Indeed, by “convergence” they meant “the PC is dead, the tablet is the future!” The tablet is nowhere, and even…” Mar 15, 16:42
Cozy on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “In a way, you do have the option to disable and remove those services, albeit it’s not presented in a…” Mar 15, 16:38
edel on Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?: ““Israel’s future is very bleak” is the only thing I could bet on. Some thoughts: Alternative 1) It wins all…” Mar 15, 14:40
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “I agree on firewalls and everything else (except for the MacBook)! But when someone installs a distro with a desktop…” Mar 15, 08:06
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Zero BSODs here with 8 GB, but even the IoT edition of Win11 is demanding in CPU and RAM.” Mar 15, 08:02
ConEst on LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE vs. Markdown: FAIL!: “This is just too funny at this point 😀” Mar 15, 06:38
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: ““Less bad” was the criteria for me when I went back to windows.” Mar 15, 06:35
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “When I was on fedora, I noticed it only got usable after like 2-3 months from its stable update. By…” Mar 15, 06:34
Cozy on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Nothing to show here, but like the bot said, it’s really only practical for servers. Same goes for firewalls too…” Mar 15, 05:23
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Regarding systemd GUI management tools, I forgot to mention a few outliers, which I added as UPDATE: ① MX: “MX…” Mar 14, 22:45
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “SJVN steps in: Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids’ IDs before booting: A new wave of age verification…” Mar 14, 17:04
Béranger on Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux: “Liam Proven’s attempt at comparing ZRAM and ZSWAP: RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it. As expected,…” Mar 14, 16:56
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “After some more KDE-related updates, Spectacle still crashes on exit and, of course, it creates 36 QMLC files as soon…” Mar 14, 16:08
KrapDE on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “They probably know how to program, but they are dumb who live on another planet and have no idea how…” Mar 14, 14:08
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Oh, the EXT4 performance is closer to XFS than ever in Linux 7.0 Git:” Mar 14, 13:20
alecs on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “Democrația nu înseamnă că nu ești violat, înseamnă că majoritatea decide cine te violează.” Mar 14, 04:38
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Bibi is unstoppable: Les frappes israéliennes menées au Liban depuis le 2 mars ont fait 773 morts et 1 933…” Mar 14, 01:24
Béranger on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “France24 tocmai făcea socoteala că pentru un litru de motorină care costă €2.05 la pompă, statul e responsabil pentru €1.05…” Mar 14, 01:20
Béranger on On browser wars and stupid people: “Oh, I forgot about this relic! It does work, but it doesn’t always serve the purpose. I collect watermark-free Bing…” Mar 13, 21:11
Béranger on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Varianta mea de istorie scurtă pe care am pus-o ca descriere la un extras video pe FB: În 1953, CIA…” Mar 13, 20:58
foobar on On browser wars and stupid people: “In Firefox, you can press Ctrl+I, then select “Media” to see all images on a page.” Mar 13, 18:38
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Oui, chef !” Mar 13, 00:05
HAL on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “I told you not to trust Fedora and/or KDE! Perhaps the most “secure”, with the reservations you mention, is XFCE.…” Mar 12, 23:52
Béranger on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “N-ai cum să te opui, că doar nu ești cu Putler și cu Ayatolahii! (Jeff Stahler) Dar există o soluție…” Mar 12, 12:57
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Al Jazeera: Could Iran be using China’s highly accurate BeiDou navigation system? Why wouldn’t they? China needs oil! We all…” Mar 12, 04:46
Béranger on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “Am o critică măruntă: ai scris „Atenție: în contextul războiului cu Iranul!” Corect ar fi fost: „Atenție: în contextul războiului…” Mar 12, 01:40
Aldus on N-au nici pișu’, nici mazărea vreo șansă: “Eu sunt chiar tranșant pe subiectul ăsta. Pe scurt, no way! Pe larg, aici (articol + comentarii). Și asta pentru…” Mar 11, 23:48
Béranger on Is openSUSE at crossroads?: “Ouch, SUSE might be for sale.” Mar 11, 22:23
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Uh, MidnightBSD’s initial reaction was not what it seemed to be, even if it changed twice. First time: California residents…” Mar 11, 22:20
Béranger on Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux: “ZRAM becomes more and more interesting. In October 2025, I used Zswap (not ZRAM!) in Lubuntu 25.10. In December 2025,…” Mar 11, 18:30
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