Month: November 2022

Tons of people ask how to disable baloo. Some jokers say to uninstall dolphin (that's a silly notion). There are many reasons for why someone wants to remove baloo. The most common reason seems to be that many are frustrated with the performance impact that it has on their computer. This brings me to support help/suggestions from the Internet. The problem that I encounter most in reading Linux support suggestions is that so many people suggest the same solution. That's fine, however most people give you incomplete suggestions. They often leave things out (such as the paths to folder/files), and often they fail to state which program is used to remove/disable/edit -- fix. Why did I want to remove baloo? In my case my computer would freeze every minute or…

Manjaro was supposed to solve an issue that my Kubuntu installation had. After upgrading to 22.04 of Kubuntu the whole thing failed to connect to any remote desktop, local or remote. I had a Manjaro install on another computer. It had no issues with its latest updates. For this reason, as well as others, some of which are philosophical, I chose to switch to Manjaro. Some of those other issues are: I'm not interested in Snaps, Appimages, or Flatpacks and don't want Canonical dictating that I have to have Snaps. In the latest 22.04 they forced you to use a snap. They uninstalled the Firefox app and instead installed Firefox as a Snap. If you tried it you may have found that this caused Firefox to load incredibly slow. The…