VintageTechie
@vintagetechie56.bsky.social
Gay. Mass extinction survivor. Building COSMIC desktop applets and writing about Linux, life, and the long way here at blog.vintagetechie.com
COSMIC hit 1.0.6 today. Weekly releases since December.
Pop!_OS is still on Ubuntu repos from April 2024. The desktop moves at rolling-release speed. The base system can't keep up.
So I moved COSMIC to Arch.
blog.vintagetechie.com/the-desktop-...
#COSMIC #Linux #PopOS #Arch
Pop!_OS is still on Ubuntu repos from April 2024. The desktop moves at rolling-release speed. The base system can't keep up.
So I moved COSMIC to Arch.
blog.vintagetechie.com/the-desktop-...
#COSMIC #Linux #PopOS #Arch
The Desktop Outgrew the Distro
I loved Pop!_OS and ran 22.04 for years. System76 built something special with that distro, and when they announced they were writing a new desktop environment from scratch in Rust, I was all in. Thre...
blog.vintagetechie.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:19 PM
COSMIC hit 1.0.6 today. Weekly releases since December.
Pop!_OS is still on Ubuntu repos from April 2024. The desktop moves at rolling-release speed. The base system can't keep up.
So I moved COSMIC to Arch.
blog.vintagetechie.com/the-desktop-...
#COSMIC #Linux #PopOS #Arch
Pop!_OS is still on Ubuntu repos from April 2024. The desktop moves at rolling-release speed. The base system can't keep up.
So I moved COSMIC to Arch.
blog.vintagetechie.com/the-desktop-...
#COSMIC #Linux #PopOS #Arch
I'm 69. Most of my friends are gone. Not from age, but from AIDS.
Built families for people dying alone. Spent 43 years on platforms I didn't choose. Now I run Arch.
blog.vintagetechie.com/still-skiddi...
#Linux #OpenSource #COSMIC #Rust
Built families for people dying alone. Spent 43 years on platforms I didn't choose. Now I run Arch.
blog.vintagetechie.com/still-skiddi...
#Linux #OpenSource #COSMIC #Rust
Still Skidding Broadside
I'm 69 years old and most of my friends are gone. Not from age, but from AIDS. This is the story behind the blog, the Arch install, and a lifetime of building my own things because nobody was going to...
blog.vintagetechie.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I'm 69. Most of my friends are gone. Not from age, but from AIDS.
Built families for people dying alone. Spent 43 years on platforms I didn't choose. Now I run Arch.
blog.vintagetechie.com/still-skiddi...
#Linux #OpenSource #COSMIC #Rust
Built families for people dying alone. Spent 43 years on platforms I didn't choose. Now I run Arch.
blog.vintagetechie.com/still-skiddi...
#Linux #OpenSource #COSMIC #Rust
System76 just dropped the COSMIC Epoch 2 and 3 roadmap. This desktop is moving fast. Too fast for Ubuntu LTS repos. The math doesn't work. I run COSMIC on vanilla Arch instead.
blog.vintagetechie.com/the-desktop-outgrew-the-distro/
#COSMIC #Linux #ArchLinux #PopOS
blog.vintagetechie.com/the-desktop-outgrew-the-distro/
#COSMIC #Linux #ArchLinux #PopOS
The Desktop Outgrew the Distro
I loved Pop!_OS and ran 22.04 for years. System76 built something special with that distro, and when they announced they were writing a new desktop environment from scratch in Rust, I was all in. Thre...
blog.vintagetechie.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:54 PM
System76 just dropped the COSMIC Epoch 2 and 3 roadmap. This desktop is moving fast. Too fast for Ubuntu LTS repos. The math doesn't work. I run COSMIC on vanilla Arch instead.
blog.vintagetechie.com/the-desktop-outgrew-the-distro/
#COSMIC #Linux #ArchLinux #PopOS
blog.vintagetechie.com/the-desktop-outgrew-the-distro/
#COSMIC #Linux #ArchLinux #PopOS
Reposted by VintageTechie
People cope that they choose a female character because they often have smaller hitboxes, just embrace the fact that you want to play virtual dress up and be cute. Fashion is always the end game
November 16, 2024 at 9:42 AM
People cope that they choose a female character because they often have smaller hitboxes, just embrace the fact that you want to play virtual dress up and be cute. Fashion is always the end game