Okay, not a Linux bug in the kernel, but one that has existed in the Enlightenment window manager E16 since 2006
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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After digging through the codebase, Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names. When a window title was too long and needed to be truncated, the algorithm responsible for doing so had no iteration limit. So it would spin indefinitely, locking up the desktop entirely.
Ah, no wonder it went unfixed for so long, most people would just rename stuff and carry on
You could say she added some Polish to it.
I'll see myself out.
I canβt scroll this site without getting floating popups for Comcast in Spanish. Itβs so annoying having to turn on Adblock for the shit tier sites
Adblock is always on. Why would you have it off by default?
I imagine her being annoyed as a baby but being taken from the computer by her parents. Thus a lifelong resentment of computers and Linux had formed until she finally was able to overcome it and fix the bug.
Legend
Not kernel
Man, i remember when I first manged to properly install enlightenment on SUSE. I knew almost nothing about linux. It was just pure trial and error from dependencies to proper drivers. I felt so proud when I finally got it working.
Anyone know what that theme is? https://itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/04/desktop-e16-2.png
and if there's a KDE equivalent...
I didn't, but I spent 5 minutes to research, and it's the BlueSteel theme.
It isn't available on KDE.