Just a quick WIP teaser tonight:
Today I finally bit the bullet, and figured out all the necessary changes to get MediaSlurper running under Linux (though to be fair, I'm only really testing this under Kubuntu currently, but may soon also test under Manjaro for good measure)!
MediaSlurper GUI running under Kubuntu, with the "Foreland" wallpaper from Manjaro
This morning, I read a fascinating essay from Baldur Bjarnason:
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/
A good few things resonated with me quite a bit, so I've pulled them out into a post here:
* 1) On "Singular Revelatory Events" (aka "Silver Bullets That Fix / Change Everything")
* 2) On what's rotten with the "Global Tech Industry"
Sigh... this evening, I finally got to test a newer KDE Live USB on Desktop 1 (which had issues with Kubuntu 25.10)
Unfortunately, I am still getting crashes with this new version:
* Can now confirm it happens when trying to bring up any window
* Can also confirm that Kwin now pops up a very handy "Crash Handler" that can show the relevant coredump.
* The problem though, was that, after the first crash (from trying to open System Settings), the next dozen in quick succession (when trying to open the "Start" menu after waiting a few minutes) were happening so frequently, that I couldn't inspect if they were all crashing on the same thing.
After several days of trials, I've been itching to deploy Kubuntu 26.04 LTS to my Linux laptop, as it has so far seemed pretty OK, but with a bunch of cool new things...
This update covers:
* 1) First impressions of the new LTS
* 2) A whole bunch of niggly tech things I've learned in the past 24 hours, either from general poking around and/or from trying to upgrade my test laptop
