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The article is not entirely accurate, and can be hit or miss. Granted, I'm cherry picking, but I'm cherry picking the pieces which I have direct knowledge whic
by bb88 8y ago
The article is not entirely accurate, and can be hit or miss. Granted, I'm cherry picking, but I'm cherry picking the pieces which I have direct knowledge which are definitely misleading.
> ! X.org architecture is inherently insecure - even if you run a desktop GUI application under a different user in your desktop session, e.g. using sudo and xhost, then that "foreign" application can grab any input events and also make screenshots of the entire screen.
A linux user would say, "So that's not a bug, that's the power of the root user. Don't do that or lock down your root access."
Then this one:
> ! The kernel cannot recover from video, sound and network drivers' crashes (I'm very sorry for drawing a comparison with Windows Vista/7/8 where this feature is implemented and works beautifully in a lot of cases).
To be fair, if you google "Nvidia BSOD" and you'll get something like this from four months ago:
https://www.eteknix.com/nvidia-release-new-2080ti-drivers-stop-bsod-issues/ https://www.eteknix.com/nvidia-release-new-2080ti-drivers-st...
And if you think the mac's are awesome, (which the software might be, I don't know) the hardware has some serious issues which has turned me off from buying one.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=louis+rossmann https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=louis+rossmann
Also to be fair, it's possible that Dell laptops have similar issues, but Apple hardware failures make a lot of noise in the media.
- swebs 8y ago>> ! X.org architecture is inherently insecure - even if you run a desktop GUI application under a different user in your desktop session, e.g. using sudo and xhost, then that "foreign" application can grab any input events and also make screenshots of the entire screen. >A linux user would say, "So that's not a bug, that's the power of the root user. Don't do that or lock down your root access." It's actually recognized as a huge problem and one of the driving forces behind Wayland.