Tag archives for Ubuntu
SJVN and his dogs got soft-headed
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is possibly the most famous business and technology journalist ever. I used to read him in BYTE and PC Magazine in the heyday of the PC. Lately,…
Bad news in Ubuntu land, Nemo was retarded, and more
This is one of my shorter posts on Linux, and it contains 4 topics. Bad news regarding Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and its flavors From the mailing list for technical-board --…
Quick hops in XFCE lands, ending in DESERT and Pacstall
Last time, I produced yet another Bible-long story of anything and everything, where I ended up stranded in MX for lacking the nerve to start over with Debian XFCE proper.…
SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian
① On Sept. 21, I said that Linux will soon be history for me. ② On Oct. 13, I found more proofs that Linux has become a joke. ③ On…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will make snaps unavoidable
Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, gave an interview to The Reg. The news are all bad, although some of the bad things won't happen that soon. But I'm saddened…
📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…
No, this blog wasn’t hijacked. This comes from the author of 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits. But this is a public service to those…
Bluesabre is pathetic, and “the Xubuntu project” is retarded
Some readers might remember that, when I discussed the CVE-2021-32563 vulnerability in Thunar, I complained that Sean Davis (aka Bluesabre or bluesabredavis), who is both the Xubuntu Technical Lead and…
Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke
Let me remind you that for me… 2025 is “The Year Linux (on the Desktop) Died”: details in the post 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits,…
I still prefer VMware to VirtualBox
Everyone swears by VirtualBox for Type 2 virtualization, most likely because it has always been free. But it's a complete piece of crap, and never was anything but a pain…
😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits
Yeah, I know, the title seems written by a chatbot. Rest assured, the content is not. As announced almost four weeks ago, it's time for me to bid Linux farewell…
Was I wrong in my take on packages vs. Flatpaks & snaps? Updated!
I don’t even remember how many times I insisted—because a Luddite has to be conservative, and Linux used to observe the KISS principle anyway—that the right thing to install software…
Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?
I wanted to include a link to The Reg’s article by Liam Proven, Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late, in a later post, in which I wanted to investigate…
One more reason to use Ubuntu LTS (regardless of flavor)
Just as it was with the CUPS hysteria, a set of rsync vulnerabilities have been promptly patched for all supported LTS versions of Ubuntu, even 18.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS…
Red Hat is fucking shitting on Linux
I wanted to write this about two weeks ago, but I just got sort of apathetic. Well, what I wanted to say has to be said, so here it is:…
Luddism #2: From snaps to immutable and back
People don’t like my rants that are supposed to be exactly that, not to mention that a blog, by definition, should mostly consist of rants. In fact, over the last…
AppImages: the worst choice in “portability” (with examples)
I occasionally discussed the modern alternatives to using packages, meaning AppImages, Flatpaks and snaps. Politics and hatred aside, both Flatpaks and snaps are usable. AppImages, on the other hand, are…
Is this the CUPS hell? Maybe not for everyone, methinks
I don't address security issues. I don't fix vulnerabilities. But I am so tired of reading about such things! And believe me, I read about them a lot. For decades…
How Webcamoid laid bare the disaster that is the Linux kernel
I noticed this behavior of Webcamoid while I was testing the latest Ubuntu MATE 24.04, and I mentioned it here. At the time, I thought that the app was broken.…
SPECIAL: Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded)
In the last year and half, I thought I could stop the distro-hopping, but very recently it turned out it wasn't the case. Since there are criteria and thoughts about…
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…