Detailed review of Plasma 6.4 desktop environment, covering look and feel, new dark theme, numerous ergonomic regressions, significant problems with basic font rendering and raw performance in a Wayland session on a system with integrated AMD graphics, superior X11 session behavior, problems with Discover and software management, various issues and bugs in the underlying KDE neon platform - installer inconsistency, disappearing icons, default browser configuration, repeatable Samba connectivi...| www.dedoimedo.com
Long, thorough review of Fedora Workstation 42 Gnome edition, tested in a dual-boot configuration on a laptop with Ryzen 5 processor, AMD graphics, and NVMe storage, covering live session, installation and post-install usage, including look and feel, font clarity, better but still bad dark theme, ergnomic and speed considerations of Gnome and Gnome Classic desktops, necessary customization with Gnome Tweaks, extensions and icons, new installer wizard and associated problems, failed first inst...| www.dedoimedo.com
Happy, enthusiastic article showcasing an SSD upgrade on a 10-year-old Lenovo G50 laptop with i3 processor, integrated graphics and 8 GB of RAM, including overview of the existing eight-boot setup on HDD, numerous ergonomic and functional reasons for the operating system choice - Kubuntu 24.04, first installation on mechanical storage for comparison purposes, second installation on SSD with encryption, various problems and annoyances with the Calamares wizard, new Plasma session look and feel...| www.dedoimedo.com
Article discussing Linux software management problems, inspired by the recent Fedora OBS Studio Flatpak incident, highlighting numerous problems with usability and security, covering topics like distribution-owned repositories and community sources, official and unoofficial packages, chain of trust, control, centric versus distributed models, monetary incentives, numerous self-defeating paradoxes, and more| www.dedoimedo.com