Quality above all. A splendid thing happened this week, hence my article introducing Xlibre xserver, a fork of the Xorg project created due to severe functional problems with the Wayland display protocol, including reasoning behind the fork, numerous unresolved issues and missing use cases in Wayland, forced adoption of Wayland and arbitrary deprecation of actively developed X11 technology, implications for the end user, future direction, and more. This ought to be interesting.| Dedoimedo RSS
Short tutorial on how to fix the missing icons issue in Plasma desktop system menu, including specific manifestation of the problem, manual program icon selection, manual icon cache rebuild, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Zorin ain't just a Bond villain. 'Tis a nice distro. To wit, here's a pretty long, thorough review of Zorin OS 17.3 Core, tested in a dual-boot configuration on a laptop with AMD processor and integrated graphics and NMVe storage, covering live session, installation and post-install use, including look and feel, customization, ergonomics, desktop effects, surprisingly decent dark theme, partitioning, language locale annoyances, tour and first-boot setup, problematic software management - slug...| Dedoimedo RSS
Le Friday delight! Here's a detailed review of the Plasma 6.3 desktop environment, tested as part of the KDE neon User Edition distribution on a laptop with AMD processor, integrated graphics and NVMe storage, including upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3, look and feel, customization, visual and functional glitches, system monitor, help pages, Wayland vs X11 functionality, performance and responsiveness, various KDE neon-specific problems like outdated ISO image, buggy installer, package management issu...| Dedoimedo RSS
Long, thorough and enthusiastic review of Microsoft Lumia 950 high-end smartphone with Windows Phone 10 mobile operating system, covering spec, look & feel, initial setup and user import from Lumia 520 & Windows 8.1, updates, Store, applications, maps and offline navigation, multimedia - HD video and MP3 songs, Cortana, camera testing, system settings, customization, security, privacy, performance, battery life, small bugs and quirks, other observations, and more| www.dedoimedo.com
Review of openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release distribution, Plasma edition, tested in a multi-boot setup on an AMD-processor laptop with Windows and Linux, covering installation and post-install usage, including smart partitioning defaults, noisy and slow boot process, good look and feel, small customization, average font quality, complicated software management - missing icons, problems with verified and unverified third-party applications, mix of RPM packages and Flatpaks, chain of trust co...| www.dedoimedo.com
Enthusiastic overview of the Plasma desktop environment, covering its many useful capabilities, features and tools, including extensive customization, deep and varied desktop integration, desktop Activities, secure Vaults for private data, good software management, excellent HD desktop scaling, language and keyboard control, a full suite of mature applications, fast performance and low resource usage, and more| www.dedoimedo.com