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PlainName:

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--- Quote from: Karel on August 28, 2023, 10:50:20 am ---
--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 28, 2023, 09:21:25 am ---In 5 years I've been running the same OS install I haven't gotten any malware, I have 0 anti-malware programs installed, I just periodically install a free version of malwarebytes and do a full scan (and every time it shows 0 malware detected)

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I believe most windows pc's are infected in one way or another, we just don't know it:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/security/uefi-rootkits/msg4327426/#msg4327426

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Yeah but you with your super secure super insanely good it's super easy to switch from windows - distro aren't safe from that either. How about the proprietary firmware that's installed on all intel cpu's since like 2009 and amd cpus since like 2014 iirc.
Or the rootkits in some brand of motherboard for a good while.
Or if you're on a laptop, those are filled with code running that you didn't ask for.
And if you have a huwawei laptop, why are you even talking about security??

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Y'all are thinking way too clever. All it takes is one innocuous app that just takes a look around and deletes any data it finds. Doesn't matter if you never run as root - just the data it can find for you, as a humble user, would be bad news if it got deleted. Or, worse, corrupted so you don't notice until you next take a look at it.
Karel:
Another reason to not use a desktop OS that has big marketshare and thus is more interesting for malware to target.
I believe that approach is more effective in practice than the best and the greatest anti-malware protection software.
PlainName:
Pardon me for being blunt, but that's dumb. Things people like tend to be popular, so you're basically saying you'd rather pass up the good stuff so you can be ignored. There are good reasons to use something other than Windows, but "it has too much market share" isn't one of them.
ELS122:

--- Quote from: PlainName on August 28, 2023, 01:17:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 28, 2023, 12:48:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Karel on August 28, 2023, 10:50:20 am ---
--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 28, 2023, 09:21:25 am ---In 5 years I've been running the same OS install I haven't gotten any malware, I have 0 anti-malware programs installed, I just periodically install a free version of malwarebytes and do a full scan (and every time it shows 0 malware detected)

--- End quote ---

I believe most windows pc's are infected in one way or another, we just don't know it:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/security/uefi-rootkits/msg4327426/#msg4327426

--- End quote ---

Yeah but you with your super secure super insanely good it's super easy to switch from windows - distro aren't safe from that either. How about the proprietary firmware that's installed on all intel cpu's since like 2009 and amd cpus since like 2014 iirc.
Or the rootkits in some brand of motherboard for a good while.
Or if you're on a laptop, those are filled with code running that you didn't ask for.
And if you have a huwawei laptop, why are you even talking about security??

--- End quote ---

Y'all are thinking way too clever. All it takes is one innocuous app that just takes a look around and deletes any data it finds. Doesn't matter if you never run as root - just the data it can find for you, as a humble user, would be bad news if it got deleted. Or, worse, corrupted so you don't notice until you next take a look at it.

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the same group that tells everyone to make backups all the time backup backups more backups.
Also running an OS within an OS virtual machine.
ELS122:
Who would ever willingly use linux? It's by far the worst user experience ever.
You install linux -> puke at the horrible GUI -> spend 5 hours going trough the *for some reason* super minimalized settings menus to make it at least barable -> then you open up firefox and find that the vertical page space is like 5 pixels because I guess nobody cares about screen space in the linux world -> install an older version of firefox with the photon theme to at least slightly save vertical space, trough console ofc -> it opens but it doesn't do anything... because of course -> spend hours trying to fix that, you don't -> start searching for userChrome alternatives to get back the photon theme -> then you realize it doesn't have a usable text editor

Meanwhile it has like 200 apps preinstalled that you will never use because they're horrid.

You cannot even create a file, you need to open up the f'in console to make any file.
The bootscreen ofc NEEDS to show every operation happening, because when you're switching from windows to linux, you're doing it because "it wasn't uselessly complicated enough, and I hated how windows was polished"
Would it hurt to add a setting for "show generic bootscreen loading bar instead of code rain"
Meanwhile the settings menu looks like a toy set for kids, super oweee glorified.

A 5 year old that watched the matrix too many times must've made all the linux distros.


MS DOS has better new user experience than any linux distro
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