Tag archives for XFCE
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…
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…
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)…
SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?)
In my various rants about Linux, I leaned towards Debian, as described for instance here. After I purchased another cheap but very decent laptop, I declared that it will be…
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…
AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026
Resolutions are meant to be broken, but I’m trying to simplify my life. I intend to stop the distro-hopping and even to stop caring about any new distros. Keeping up…
Wanderings around Debian
This is a long overdue, insignificant post on some wanderings I had while exploring some other distros based on Debian or Ubuntu. International events have delayed its writing. It all…
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…
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…
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…
Dolphin on non-KDE distros with a dark theme: the horror
While being lately into KDE, I always acknowledged that any non-GNOME-based desktop environment is perfectly usable. Two “no-go” elements: it shouldn't use Files, the dumbified version of Nautilus that makes…
How to lose even when you’re right
The populace is stupid and superficial by definition. I'm not sure if 98% of people are the basis of Idiocracy, or whether 99.8% would be a more accurate assessment. To…
I’d kill the entire Linux kernel team!
While being busy testing all the distros on the mini-PC and on the newer laptop, I forgot to properly test them on the old one. It's from 2016, with a…
The shortest distro bashing and appraisal in a long while—now with added Dedoimedo!
Not long ago, I tentatively said that “I will keep using AlmaLinux with KDE on the mini-PC and on the newest laptop, at least for some time” and “For the…
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…
Et tu, KDE? Vulnerable by design?
I never thought I'd discover such a stupid design decision in KDE. I didn't even learn about it on Planet KDE, but on KDE's Facebook public group, which I joined…
Hibernation in Manjaro—For the Lucky Ones
Hibernation in Linux is for many years already no longer a priority for distro maintainers, kernel maintainers, video driver maintainers, and so on. Currently, the only distro that explicitly supports…