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by itvision 5y ago
> Check if your hardware supports your OS before you buy it. Guess what? Then it all works great. What a waste of time. Ever opened bugzilla.kernel.org? Ever seen the number of regressions? In the past seven days alone: https:/&#x2
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by itvision 5y ago
> This is not equally true for all of the file systems named and for all of mass storage media. For quite a few of these combinations, Linux actually has the best solution available. Some of these file systems are also very niche and a g
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by itvision 5y ago
> The amount of actual errors or conceptual misunderstandings in it is so numerous and overwhelming it is difficult to respond with anything other than exhaustive blow-by-blow refutation. Normally people who spew things like this don&#x2
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Plus a million. As for MacOS, yeah, it's truly great but the hw is quite expensive and limited to what Apple sells to you. And then Apple deprecates older devices all the time and you're left with an OS where you cannot run any mo
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by itvision 5y ago
> And I think the problems in 2021 are mostly the same as they have always been: caused by vendors. Fewer than 5% of the issues listed in the article have anything to do with HW vendors, while the remaining 95% are caused by Open Source
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by itvision 5y ago
Windows has DXVA which has been standardized for over a decade. Linux still cannot settle on a single universal API which works regardless of a graphics system or various underlying drivers. In short it's a bloody mess.
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That's not what I could call "working". Most people out there will simply never use such a "solution".
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You could email him or leave comments under the article. All valid criticism has been addressed and the article keeps being updated. It's its 500th revision or something like that.
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by itvision 5y ago
> The Wayland section is also perhaps the most technically inaccurate of the post The author is open to valid criticism and updates the article whenever someone points inaccuracies or falsehoods. You and the guy replying to you, both say
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by itvision 5y ago
Let's be honest - since the removal of XUL addons, all my add-ons have been working just fine. Let's stop repeating this ... thing - it's long lost its relevance and nowadays it's just a falsehood.
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by itvision 6y ago
> Overall, if Linux security issues cannot be solved systematically, then I really doubt they could be solved with an antivirus. No one is arguing with that but a native AV for Linux could potentially add a layer of protection.
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Noticed a popup "Malware has been disinfected" and the bad files were automatically moved to a quarantine. Don't remember the AV which was used.
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by itvision 6y ago
While all these issues have taken place, AV vendors have solved them and nowadays it's safer to have them running when you need to work with the software you download from the net. If you run nothing but e.g. Windows + some web browser
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Free or not-free - there are none at the moment. ClamAV last time I checked missed over 30% of in the wild malware which renders it pretty much useless. AV-Comparatives and VBulletin have long stopped testing it for this reason.
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by itvision 6y ago
> The problem is, Linux antivirus does not really exist. That's true unfortunately. AV vendors have server solutions (i.e. without UI) for Linux but those scan mostly for Windows/MS Office malware.
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My friends sometimes have to download odd software from the net and their AV's have helped them avoid disasters.
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by itvision 6y ago
> Unpopular opinion perhaps, but I think desktop operating systems need to start including robust sandboxing and permission systems that are turned on by default. Very much welcomed but both Windows and Linux were not created with this i
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by itvision 6y ago
> Are there any anti virus for Linux that does that heuristic type scanning that you see on windows? Next to none.
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by itvision 6y ago
> The idea that to fix a security issue you should install an additional program which "increases" security is dubious. For some reasons it often works for Windows and MacOS, why wouldn't it work for Linux? > The proble
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> There is a chance that true behavior based analysis can provide hints towards compromise and all the BPF tooling around that makes it a potentially promising lead, but no anti-virus I'm aware of is doing that while other auditing
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by itvision 6y ago
First the two Gmail accounts I had in Thunderbird logged me out and asked to relogin. Then Google said my accounts did NOT exist which made me feel very uneasy. Banned? Lost all my data? OMG. Then I got error "502 That's all we kn
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by itvision 6y ago
> Linux runs better on both new and older hardware. This is very much debatable. What's true however is that if your HW is not supported by at least Windows 8.1 you're SoL. > Better as in programs open faster, the file mana
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by itvision 6y ago
The list is so convoluted while it doesn't touch on real Windows issues at all. Wow. And it often talks about issues which have been resolved, or haven't been relevant in ages, or are not a concern for most people out there. http
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Such a long comment and again what's your use case exactly? When do you need files e.g. named O.txt and o.txt in the same directory? Won't you yourself be confused by them? It's the simplest example and it already shows that
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The Go Language was rid of blacklist/whitelist and master/slave(go-review.googlesource.com)
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> You wanted to promote yourselves I have never promoted the article on HN. You may recheck who posted the link here. > full of perceptions but a bit short when it comes to facts I will dismiss this utterance with prejudice. In absolu
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by itvision 6y ago
Can your grandma do everything that you've just written? Is she even able to find all these solutions in the first place? Yes, many (but not all, including compatibility, regressions and lack of proprietary software) Linux issues might
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> Why? Because even fixing all the small technical bugs in that long list would help only for a little while. Totally agree with that. > For example, if Linux Desktop somehow got to magically all items fixed case, it is way underfunde
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If you're dismissing something with prejudice (yep, the last banned commentator just didn't have anything valuable to add and he was simply obsessed with the Linux kernel and terminology though the article explicitly states it&#
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The article was meant to be read in full. Yeah, the modern generation of people is mostly capable of consuming 140/280 chars tweets and has severe issues with the attention span but if you're wanna get deep into it, you'll re

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