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Off-topic / Re: Windows
« on March 12th, 2015, 11:23 PM »
My 3TB hard drive was the best investment I bought.
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And more consist of captured windows boxes. You can even hack freebsd boxes. But often its not the fault of the os, but of the admin. And no os helps agains a bad admin, so this discussion is not only completely off topic but also totally pointless. No one, not even you, cares about which OS is more secure. The main difference between windows and linux is that its a lot easier to gain admin rights on windows than on linux. To exploit it from outside none of both is really vulnerable. Software is but not the OS (if we talk about the "big" os'es).
You are not able to talk about an OS without some dumbass trying to show why his os decision is so much better. Really, no one cares about which OS you use.
But to get back to the topic, im always struggling a bit with the desktop environment. As mentioned before im using cinnamon in the moment. Im happy with it, but not to happy :D Thought about trying the new xfce version but my system has problems with the testing repos of archlinux... And when we talk about distributions, we often talk about desktops. So which one do you prefer?
I'd call this a brave thought, given it's posted in a thread about "who of you uses a certain OS?"...
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Off-topic / Re: Windows
« on March 12th, 2015, 10:54 PM »
How big is the temp directory (remembering that cleanups only delete files more than a week old)?
I don't have any issues, but I mostly use it for gaming so I am used to space just being eaten (and I have 3TB and Windows 8.1).
PS: Have you tried Linux ;)
I don't have any issues, but I mostly use it for gaming so I am used to space just being eaten (and I have 3TB and Windows 8.1).
PS: Have you tried Linux ;)
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Precisely, so Linux is not a better choice than Windows from a technical POV.
Of course not: As Windows has gathered a pretty lot of exploit mitigation techniques since Windows Vista, mobile devices and servers are not only more interesting for those collecting personal data, they even are easier to intrude.
Depends. They can go and try to break my OpenBSD box (double-encrypted). Good luck.
They don't need to target me in order to gather my data if I'm not cautious enough. They target everyone.
^ This.
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Oh well...
(And that's just the kernel!)
Leaving your "M$" flame aside (HALP! MICRO$OFT WANTS TO MAKE MONEY WITH THEIR PRODUCTS! BURN THEM!), guess the Linux market share on smartphones and servers - both are much more interesting targets than ordinary desktops. Then talk again.
Knowing that government agencies are able to access all of my data if I'm not "paranoid" enough, does that make me a bad guy?
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You started mentioning Microsoft's occasional slowness when fixing bugs, but it's irrelevant for non-Microsoft software? Interesting.
The thing with most of the "Microsoft Security Bugs" is that they usually allow an intruder to enter your PC and "own it" if you will, how many people "owned" computers through this "non Microsoft bug"? It also exasperates the problem that M$ operating systems have a majority market share which increases the attack visibility (where as this is not so much of an issue for Xorg).
What would be the priority in a busy hospital? And where would those priorities lie?
"I pricked my finger and need a bandaid" ~ Xorg
"Someone cut my arm off... HALP" ~ M$
While i'd love to live in a world where bugs don't exist and everyone lives in "Happy Fantasy Land", this is not the case and priorities are needed some times.
There's no such thing as "secure enough" in the post-Snowden era.
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Remember that 23-years old bug in X.org? Microsoft couldn't even beat that.Quote from Bunstonious on March 10th, 2015, 12:25 AM how long have many Microsoft vulnerabilities existed before they were fixed!
At the end of the day it's not of a huge consequence to me, I don't wear tin foil hats, and the operating systems I use are secure enough for me.
I currently use:
1) Windows Gaming PC
2) MacBook Pro - 2011
3) Linux Laptops
4) Linux Server VPS
At the end of the day you use what makes you happy.
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Interesting write-up http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/
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I do - actively contributing to a couple of open source applications and operating systems. It's just that I don't have the time to establish a better Linux distribution completely on my own.
Have you ever heard of idiocracy?
Seriously though, FLOSS was about transparency one day. Systemd blurs transparency and makes it harder to understand what your system is doing. Also, with systemd enabled, you'll have to accept a pretty lot of default services if you don't want to lose "functionality". Replacing them is deprecated. Choice is made harder.
Missed the last part, haven't you?
No one said you were.
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I don't hate Linux, it's just that it doesn't anything better than other available operating systems (or kernels) anymore. (Yes, I lost files - Linux just tends to have close to no QA, leading to banana software, maturing with the customer.) Systemd is a different beast, basically kidnapping most system core functionality and replacing it with abstraction layers which just make things worse.
One day, end users will have forgot that Linux admins could parse their system logs without third-party applications,
Admittedly, I never used systemd as I jumped from the sinking Linux boat before it was integrated, but the existing virtual machines make me feel sick yet.
openSUSE, that said, is a nice beginner Linux, much better than Ubuntu for what it does - if you like it.
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Have a clear preference for Linux Mint and Debian.
I left Linux in 2012 - here's my story - and recommend everyone to follow my example. systemd is the last thing you'd ever want to have on your desktops, trust me.
There is close to no reason to still use Linux for anything, except "using Steam without having to pay for a Windows license" (if you haven't had one yet). For all other purposes, there's BSD.
Posted from my Windows desktop while connected to my FreeBSD server, having my OpenBSD desktop in sight. ::)
So, basically, end users who don't want to dig into tech will have to defeat and accept the unwelcome "feature". Non-systemd distributions with a certain appeal to non-programmers are rare at best.Quote from CerealGuy on March 8th, 2015, 07:38 PM Pick another distro or build it on your own.
openSUSE Tumbleweed.
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Debian :D
I'm using Arch too, i really like that pacman thing. Before i used debian/ubuntu.