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The security model on Linux is "don't fling binaries from strangers around." That's why you can get away with the lazes fair security model X uses and still hav

by usrn 4y ago

The security model on Linux is "don't fling binaries from strangers around." That's why you can get away with the lazes fair security model X uses and still have less malware than Windows. Heck half the garbage Microsoft themselves ship with the OS could be called malware.

brudgers 4y ago
Ubuntu connected the web browser to Amazon by default. And sent my desktop searches to Google. Or maybe it was Duck Duck Go. Which is Bing. Same as Microsoft does. My decision was practical. Linux was a local minimum for me. For my creative pursuits, Windows simply has less friction. For example, my photography workflow used a Linux program called rapidphotodownloader. One day toward the end, it stopped working. I spent a non-trivial but not extreme amount of time figuring out why. Turns out, the developer had hard coded window managers into the configuration file with the latest update (and the software nags every time there is an update and because it is Python with access with substantial file system privileges security is a concern). Anyway, my Linux workflow used Xmonad which wasn't in the list of popular window managers the developer considered. And because the software wasn't generous in what it accepted, it just broke. I value stable tooling. And after nearly a decade with Linux, I debugged the problem, changed the configuration file and felt a sense of accomplishment. But what I really wanted to do was get my pictures off an SD card so I could do photography...editing, printing, and maybe sharing on social media. If I was into filing bug reports, I would have let the developer know. But I'm not. Not that I am a selfish prick - at least I don't think I am - who doesn't "give back to the community." It's that there is no community there that I am a part of...at least there's no more community there for me than there is a hammer community to which I ought to give feedback about hammers. For many many things, digital tools are a mostly solved problem. Downloading files from and SD card and renaming them is a long solved problem...Windows Xcopy has been around since the NT days. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/xcopy https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati... So I wrote a .bat file to store the configuration I wanted...just as I did in the old days. Because a general purpose computer is a general purpose computer and operating systems are mostly fungible. There just isn't enough time in my day to have strong emotional bonds to one and hate for another. YMMV.

by usrn 4y ago

brudgers 4y ago

Ubuntu connected the web browser to Amazon by default. And sent my desktop searches to Google. Or maybe it was Duck Duck Go. Which is Bing. Same as Microsoft does. My decision was practical. Linux was a local minimum for me. For my creative pursuits, Windows simply has less friction. For example, my photography workflow used a Linux program called rapidphotodownloader. One day toward the end, it stopped working. I spent a non-trivial but not extreme amount of time figuring out why. Turns out, the developer had hard coded window managers into the configuration file with the latest update (and the software nags every time there is an update and because it is Python with access with substantial file system privileges security is a concern). Anyway, my Linux workflow used Xmonad which wasn't in the list of popular window managers the developer considered. And because the software wasn't generous in what it accepted, it just broke. I value stable tooling. And after nearly a decade with Linux, I debugged the problem, changed the configuration file and felt a sense of accomplishment. But what I really wanted to do was get my pictures off an SD card so I could do photography...editing, printing, and maybe sharing on social media. If I was into filing bug reports, I would have let the developer know. But I'm not. Not that I am a selfish prick - at least I don't think I am - who doesn't "give back to the community." It's that there is no community there that I am a part of...at least there's no more community there for me than there is a hammer community to which I ought to give feedback about hammers. For many many things, digital tools are a mostly solved problem. Downloading files from and SD card and renaming them is a long solved problem...Windows Xcopy has been around since the NT days. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/xcopy https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati... So I wrote a .bat file to store the configuration I wanted...just as I did in the old days. Because a general purpose computer is a general purpose computer and operating systems are mostly fungible. There just isn't enough time in my day to have strong emotional bonds to one and hate for another. YMMV.