opinion

GTK 4 makes no sense

2025-03-04

I recently started to write a GTK 3 library, but then I realised it will be obsolete in 5 years at most, and I thought GTK 4 isn't that bad, so I decided to port it to GTK 4. Turns out I was wrong.

There are no beginner GNU/Linux distributions

2024-11-10

I see this so often and it's so wrong. That if you know GNU/Linux, you must switch to Arch, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE or at least Debian. That if you use Mint or Ubuntu, you're not a real GNU/Linux user.

A Reason to Call it GNU/Linux

2024-07-31

Linux isn't very Unix-like by itself. Of course, it's a Unix-like kernel, and it does Unix-compatible file operations, process management, and system calls, but without the GNU suite or some other userland, it is just a kernel which doesn't have to be used as a Unix-like one.

Browsers are doing way too much nowadays

2024-05-07

Ooh, shiny! Chrome is now forcing me to view my bookmarks in a ✨side panel✨! It's not like we have windowing environments for that, right? Doesn't matter, it's modern, new so it's cool and automatically better even though it sucks!