10-16-2025, 05:42 AM
whoo hoo! that linux isn't expected to increase. the real number of its desktop users even by 1%.
because many things are happening. that are totally turning me off from 64-bit computing. in which mobile is a very poor recourse.
foss is becoming a joke in all honesty. things are becoming more bloated. yeah it has to look pretty! while there are many lagoons. it's no use bragging a few areas are filled in. such as ham radio and scientific research. and the possibility to offer free software by and for t******sts.
kde plasma 6 is awesome, people keep saying. i would lie i would agree with them. for one year i tried to like cinnamon desktop. but the thing is slow. ugly no matter what they do to it. requires a specific command to kill it and restart it. an operating system with the same exact base. which carries cinnamon desktop. takes noticeably longer to start and stop. than the same with a different desktop. maybe it's like that with gnome and whatever is based on it. increasingly i need to run a half-desktop. with "x11" sessions only. to get an "operating system." that jumps to the "desktop" in less than ten seconds. not even mx linux could do it now.
no, this isn't linux mint i've been talking about. because after i was able to install "xia". the dumb thing refused to boot. tried it even on an internal disk that used to have windows10. yay it worked only then! but then it was borked. i had much better luck with ubuntu studio "noble numbat". which iso size is 7-1/2gib.
yeah it's depressing. although windows10 was a holdover for me at best. i hankered for my less-capable toshiba portable computers. running windowsxp with 32-bit music-creation software. and an insufficient version of qb64. there are a few things i wouldn't give up that i learned later. otherwise if i had more money and time. i wouldn't hesitate to totally go back to 32-bit. and even less dependence on internet. which is poisoning my mind and soul.
because many things are happening. that are totally turning me off from 64-bit computing. in which mobile is a very poor recourse.
foss is becoming a joke in all honesty. things are becoming more bloated. yeah it has to look pretty! while there are many lagoons. it's no use bragging a few areas are filled in. such as ham radio and scientific research. and the possibility to offer free software by and for t******sts.
kde plasma 6 is awesome, people keep saying. i would lie i would agree with them. for one year i tried to like cinnamon desktop. but the thing is slow. ugly no matter what they do to it. requires a specific command to kill it and restart it. an operating system with the same exact base. which carries cinnamon desktop. takes noticeably longer to start and stop. than the same with a different desktop. maybe it's like that with gnome and whatever is based on it. increasingly i need to run a half-desktop. with "x11" sessions only. to get an "operating system." that jumps to the "desktop" in less than ten seconds. not even mx linux could do it now.
no, this isn't linux mint i've been talking about. because after i was able to install "xia". the dumb thing refused to boot. tried it even on an internal disk that used to have windows10. yay it worked only then! but then it was borked. i had much better luck with ubuntu studio "noble numbat". which iso size is 7-1/2gib.
yeah it's depressing. although windows10 was a holdover for me at best. i hankered for my less-capable toshiba portable computers. running windowsxp with 32-bit music-creation software. and an insufficient version of qb64. there are a few things i wouldn't give up that i learned later. otherwise if i had more money and time. i wouldn't hesitate to totally go back to 32-bit. and even less dependence on internet. which is poisoning my mind and soul.