Re: No Bedrock choice without KDE!
> Choice is good, sure, but the Unix philosophy is "do one thing and do it well".
Nope. It's "Make each program do one thing well." Except that KDE is not a program; it's an environment.
Look, I was a fan of XFCE. I had my reasons to prefer Dolphin, and KRename, and Okular, and so on, so in the end I said: why not use KDE? I'm using a mixture of Qt and GTK software anyway! And XFCE is severely incomplete (with apps that have not reach version 1.0), and with CSD and non-CSD apps, some taken from MATE, so it's too much like 20 years ago, but broken by CSD!
Do you know that Qt fixes an exFAT bug in the Linux kernel, and thus only Dolphin has that bug fixed, of all the UI file managers? (PCManFM-Qt uses file operations from Gtk, inherited from PCManFM, only the UI is Qt.)
Do you know in how many file managers, when you copy a huge file and hit Cancel, so a gracious cancellation, instead of having the copied portion deleted (say, fclose() followed by remove()), you end up with a truncated file, and you don't even know it's a truncated one unless you compare the sizes? Nautilus/Files, Nemo, Caja, Thunar, PCManFM, PCManFM-Qt , they all leave the broken incomplete file. Dolphin is the only one that doesn't! Now, tell me WHEN did the file manager in Windows leave you with incomplete files? Again, not forced closing, just Cancel or ESC or whatever.
You know a lot of things I don't know. I know a lot of things you don't know. I could tell you about a certain vulnerability in Thunar that Sean Davis didn't notice, despite being the Xubuntu Technical Lead and an Xfce Core Developer. That vulnerability (unimportant by me, but I'm not the judge of CVEs) still exists in PCManFM-Qt and PCManFM, and you know why? Because nobody checked those file managers to see how they behave.
There are literally tons of crap in everything people use. They're too superficial to care. I could tell you about many things, but nobody is interested in what I have to say. They don't read my blog, which is fine per se, as it's cheaply hosted and it would crash.
But I'm stunned how people with a long experience in Linux can be so superficial. Oh, I could list how often a Linux kernel update broke something for me. For an old laptop from 2016 it broke for eternity the audio jacks (because they're two). I know the patch, I know what models it was supposed to fix, but it did so by breaking another model.
I only report bugs when there's a decent chance of getting fixed. I had in the past simple bugs closed after 8 or 12 years because they were obsolete, but not fixed (one was in gedit, and it was terribly stupid). Today, if I can't find the reason of the bug in the sources, I don't even bother, because I know that nobody will.
Linux is in shambles, but I can't use FreeBSD for a number of practical reasons. Oh, but people get ecstatic about Linux Mint! Liam, you know as well as I do that the romantic age of Linux is gone. About 500 distros have died. We only have a bunch of reasonably working distros nowadays, and their quality is pathetic.
So if I'm using AlmaLinux 9 with KDE on my home computers, this is for me the lesser evil. The crap that stinks less than Windows. But it's not much improved in the last 25 years (I only know Linux since 1994, and in the first years with it, it seemed to be improving). The BSDs are really almost as they were in 1996-1998. What a pathetic world.