Tag archives for Ubuntu
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…
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…
On public demand: quick RAM figures
I’ve been asked how memory-hungry Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is on my customized installation. The lazy way, gnome-system-monitor (for which I needed to add the CTRL+SHIFT+ESC shortcut because there wasn’t any)…
Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?
It was literally two days ago that I wrote: I told you that Ubuntu MATE is as good as dead, didn’t I? It was in the context of Ubuntu MATE…
Dumbo goes on: 26.04 Beta is solid, but not Kubuntu
This is a very short follow-up to How I chose to become Dumbo. What happened is that I installed Ubuntu 26.04 LTS pre-release (Daily Build from March 16) on the…
How I chose to become Dumbo
Anyone remember where I left off in my blog post about Nyarch Linux? I planned to install Nyarch GNOME on my new Lenovo, using Nyarch Customize and Dash to Panel…
Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?
I know that Linux distros stopped observing the KISS principle long ago, and systemd is one of the best examples of this loss of direction. In my book, both SELinux…
AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE
I have an uncertainty relative to the opportunity of sticking to Fedora over using Ubuntu, and this goes beyond the obvious. The obvious is this: Should I want stability and…
Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!
Just as I thought that the worst thing that could happen to humankind and the worst possible thing in America was Donald J. Trump, wokism in Socialist California struck again!…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS should be renamed Idiocracy Linux
I said it before: the adoption of GNOME 3 as “the” desktop was a severe betrayal of Ubuntu’s user base. But now Canonical goes even further in insulting the intelligence…
Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!
I'm not fiercely hating snaps—I’m only annoyed by them. A lot, but once they’re there, and Canonical doesn’t seem to give up (snaps won't share the fate of upstart, Mir,…
Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend
There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…
The usual mental retard in Linux
Nothing special, just the same old. Some “error while loading shared libraries” crap. Out of curiosity, I wanted to try 4K Video Downloader Plus under Debian 13. The download page…
He’s not right, but he’s not exactly wrong, either
This is a quick and belated answer to Dedoimedo’s Why Ubuntu? And the answer is, why not. It's not a rebuttal. He’s not necessarily wrong. But he can't fundamentally be…
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,…