Short Bits 2026

Updated on 2026-04-18

Short Bits is my method of sharing information that would be too short for a separate blog post. Following are my short posts for 2026.

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• 01 – Check the Ingredient List When Purchasing Baked Goods in the Whole Foods Market Bakery (2026-02-06)
• 02 – Attempted to Try Fedora Linux (2026-04-18)

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01 – Check the Ingredient List When Purchasing Baked Goods in the Whole Foods Market Bakery (2026-02-06)

If you buy baked goods made by Whole Foods Market bakery, you should check the ingredient list. About a year or two ago, I began to notice that Whole Foods Market bakery began using a GMO (genetically modified organism) ingredient in their cupcakes and in one of their pies. I was dumbfounded…Whole Foods Market, who prides themselves for selling organic food, using a GMO ingredient?! A few months ago, I noticed that they are now also using a GMO ingredient in their cookies. As a result, I choose not to purchase the products.

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02 – Attempted to Try Fedora Linux (2026-04-18)

I decided to try Fedora Linux this month. I did a little bit of research prior to making the decision to try Fedora Linux and I read a Distrowatch review by Jesse Smith about release 43. In the review Jesse stated that he wasn’t able to find a way to install Fedora Linux on a specific partition. However, I thought I’d try anyway. I downloaded the XFCE spin of release 43 and burned it to a USB thumb drive.

Jesse was right. There was no way to install Fedora Linux on a specific partition. I received an error stating that there wasn’t enough space on the drive I intended to install Fedora Linux on, but there was a 29 GB partition with nothing on it. However, for whatever reason, the Fedora installer wasn’t able to see it.

So, I thought I’d try installing the XFCE spin of release 42, available from the Fedora Linux public archives. However, I wasn’t able to even boot the live version of Fedora Linux from the USB thumb drive I installed it on. The UEFI boot menu on my computer showed two partitions for Fedora Linux. Attempting to boot from the first USB thumb drive partition just rebooted the computer. Attempting to boot from the second USB thumb drive partition brought up a GRUB prompt.

I did a little bit of research about Fedora Linux release 42 install errors. Although I found plenty of posts about errors, I wasn’t able to find a solution for the issue I was having.

What a horrible experience from such a major Linux distribution. I ended up deciding Fedora Linux wasn’t worth the trouble. I don’t think I’ll ever try the distribution again.

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