Welcome to my corner of the Internet 🐸 starkle is a pseudonym I use for my online presence. I prefer keeping my personal and public lives separate. Some o...
If you get your headlines from tech YouTubers or enthusiast forums, you are probably outraged by the new California "age verification" law at the "operating system level" that will "even affect Linux!" I read this law months ago before it passed and thought it was very good. Even if this law didn't exist, I would still want operating systems, including Linux, to implement the proposed changes. The…
LibreOffice uses the generic ugly Wayland icon on KDE when installed from Flathub. It's a known issue without a reliable workaround, even using KDE's "window rules". Well, I finally found the window rules needed to force the correct icons. It's pretty hacky, but at least it works. Follow this guide or paste my rules at the bottom to a .kwinrule file and import it. The trick is that each…
This post is dedicated to the victims of Windows, desperate for an escape, browsing the web for a Linux distro through teary eyes, only to be met with so many perplexing options and even worse "Top 10 Linux Distro" lists that only add more noise. Fear no more, I'll keep it simple: You should probably use Fedora Linux . Fedora Linux logo. I am not affiliated with the Fedora Project. You may not…
I've used KDE on Fedora Linux for a few years now. It's an absolute delight to use, and I've watched it improve steadily over time. While many things in the tech world seem to be racing toward enshittification , I want to take a moment to share a few random things that bring me joy when using KDE. 1. Easy Window Moving and Resizing On Windows, what happens when you click a window while holding the…