linux “secure” lol
It’s open source, which in this case means a lot of people are working on it, and it is used on internet-facing computers, which means it can’t hide behind a residential firewall so has to be secure against every attack imaginable.
So yeah, the fact that is called merely “secure” is indeed lol, it should have been called “ultra mega super max secure”.
Bro/sis/enby read a random aah article and concluded that every sysadmin in the world is wrong 💀
This article is just one of several articles that cite vulnerabilities that GNU/Linux has. Open source is something I advocate but I am aware that the mere fact that a software is open source does not guarantee that it is secure. Many eyes checking the code did not prevent the xz Utils backdoor from being included in several distributions. The monolithic kernel is also problematic every day, more and more lines of code are added, further increasing the attack surface, among others. Just to name a few
This is a seriously ironic take coming from someone whose username is a reference to the biggest breach of Linux security in history and the ease with which the trust needed to pull it off was gained
Saying something that could be construed as positive towards windows on lemmy???
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
Well, the real problem is that Windows enjails people while GNU/Linux empowers by giving freedom
inconsistency with icons and design in some areas
Sounds like a straw man argument. What Linux user would cite that as a complaint against Windows?
(I use arch btw)
A noob, or anyone who spends too much time on /UnixDesktops without realizing that /rainmeter is also a thing.
Just answering your question. Debian here
This is so true! I would say, especially on Lemmy, but I’m so late plenty of users already made that point for me. lol
That said, I’m just waiting for Microsoft to implement that copilot crap to finally maybe actually try to transition to linux - same reason I finally left reddit (I was basically forced off)
Yah, I got tired of reconfiguring my windows every-time it updated.
The little annoyances built up to a point where the 1 hour of migrating stuff over and booting up a new OS was worth it.
Someone loves sucking on micro soft dicks (joking, wanted to make the micro soft joke)
I don’t think people’s #1 problem with Windows is that the icons are inconsistent sometimes.
Cope.
and seethe
possibly also mald
i don’t hate windows because of design inconsistencies and imagined security differences. i hate windows because it shoves ads in my face and spies on me, and every time i dig through the registry to get it to not do that, it gets undone with the next system update.
i use linux because it doesn’t make me do that in order to have a system i consider usable.
I am not a fan of the design inconsistencies or the apparent desire within Microsoft to change the entire GUI style every 5 minutes, but the way Windows has turned into bloated AF adware/spyware has been the main force behind me moving to Linux. I would have been happy with Windows XP forever if they just kept updating DirectX etc.
My other major annoyance is how Windows Update now forces itself on you, forces a reboot, then takes forever, and of course will randomly fail to apply the updates. Whereas with Linux, the updates just… work. And they don’t take half an hour to do nothing.
Also the pulling-teeth-process of updating Windows. How does a commercial OS shit the bed on that so hard?
What’s the problem with the updates? I don’t have any problems with OS-Updates on W11 and also have no commercials or Copilot or shit like this. And no update ever tried to bring me those things. EU btw
My last experience with Windows was with Windows 10, but updates were always taking an extremely long time both to download (my internet is a bit slow, Linux updates have way smaller download sizes) and to install, and update installation often failed.
Ah okay, we had 50k DSL for the longest time now, and updates never were really a problem. Yes, they download in the background but never really influenced my internet usage. And updates never really broke anything for me. But I also never update ASAP. But everyone’s mileage may vary. I mainly use my PC for entertainment purposes and picture editing. No problems there except with Adobe, because it’s a shit show of a program suite, haha
Recently I had two major problems with Windows updates that needed manual intervention in a very user unfriendly way.
Earlier this year one of the security updates for 22H2 broke my computer’s recovery partition and prevented the update to install and constantly fail. It took like a week for Microsoft to acknowledge the issue, at which point they said they would post a fix shortly. Then a whole month later they said they wouldn’t/couldn’t fix it automatically and anyone affected would have to manually delete the partition, shrink your main disk partition, and recreate the recovery partition. On top of that, there was no notification of the issue or how to fix it, one would have to notice the update keeps failing, look up the error, and dig up the instructions from their blog. And then go through the ugly process of editing partitions which I can’t imagine most users doing.
Either that or just live with no recovery until the next time you reinstall the os.
The second issue this year was halfway through a windows update (when it just reboots a couple times) my computer just simply stopped booting. I could power cycle and everything and after the bios it would just black screen forever. The only way I got around it was to hop into the bios and change the boot order. Another thing I wouldn’t expect normal users should have to do to just boot the computer
And I personally have seen all the ads in Windows explorer, the start menu, the lock screen, etc. and the massive pushing of Copilot being added to the toolbar even after removing it manually. And readding OneDrive. I’m in the US though so that’s probably why (it’s nice to know the only reason Microsoft does all this because they’re not legally pressured not to. Gives me so much trust in them to do the right thing with my computer and data)
I’ve since moved to Linux (which I’ve used on my work machine for many years) and have had near zero issues. It’s very nice not worrying how my computer is going to make itself worse without my consent next
edit: I definitely wouldn’t consider myself a fanatic that tries to convert everyone to Linux. For a lot of people Windows is the best choice, but in my case in particular it really has made things easier
I feel like it’s a thing in the EU, where we don’t have ads or shit like that in Windows. Been using Windows 11 for like a month now and haven’t seen a single ad.
Wow, I’m having so much fun staring at the start menu.
Linux folks can get annoying sometimes, but Windows has become absolutely painful to use recently. It’s adware is absolutely disgusting, in line with everything else in corporate society. Every time I use my computer, I’m reminded that I live in a dystopia. When I get a new desktop, it sure as shit won’t run Windows.
OP successfully triggered people, this isn’t even offensive (I use opensuse btw)
Nice bait and all but this is literally the other way around.
No. Windows has these “issues” if you use a diverse-enough set of apps, and there are quite-a-few things it won’t let you tweak without paid or uNtRuSteD apps that Linux will. The difference is that Linux includes more diverse apps by default, and doesn’t hide them away very well.
Personally, I love a bit of inconsistency, and Windows resides on my laptop because I’m more concerned with getting Linux onto my phone these days.
I’m more concerned with getting Linux onto my phone these days.
Ah, hello fellow masochist
jk im happy chrooting into a distro via termux, i dont have the money for an actual phone i can get linux into :<
I just spent $200 on eBay for a OnePlus 6T (which is the newest phone supported by postmarketOS). First impressions: it is buggy as all hell and running what is essentially a desktop Linux OS on a 5 inch touchscreen does not work as well as I had hoped it would, but it is open source and it does kind of work, and I’m hoping with a lot more experimentation I can get it to kind of work slightly better
Oh man I love playing Start Menu. One of those games that just doesn’t work on Linux.
