My bad then. I’m sorry I thought you were a shill, but those do come through here pretty often to dump their winblow and crApple dung.

As I said in another response, security is difficult to marry with convenience. You can see it on mobile operating systems where a flashlight app asks for network and storage permissions, and users just accept because they can’t be bothered with even reading it.

I too recognise that there is a lot of room to improve, but I’m hopeful that with more attention, linux will become more secure. There will be more brainpower and money flowing into it.

Linux allows nearly endless customisation. But when making a desktop distro, you have to weigh convenience and security. You can be the most secure OS on the planet, but if nothing can run because of that, nobody will use it.

Go ahead and try to use Fedora with all security options activated. Give it a try and find out how much you like it. I bet that once you have to resolve your first SELinux issue that prevents you from running your favorite application, you’ll start being more lax or drop it all together.

I think already know the answer to this, but which OS do you think is the most secure?

Linux is used in security contexts. What do you think Kali Linux is for? There’s a linux distro that is literally a hypervisor to separate everything into VMs (Qubes). Fedora allows you to activate more security options like SELinux (which is also one way Android achieves more security BTW). And I could go on, but it seems you chose to be ignorant before making the claim linux was insecure.

Linux distros babe many flavors and eachallows a different focus.

Astroturfing. Pretending to be grassroots but just being a corporate shill to be for or promote corporate services and products.

Turfblaster is a word for someone who astroturfs.

We thank you dearly for poisoning the well.

Enterprise wastes glorious amounts of money. They can easily afford a flock for 200€/month. They waste that amount of money on a single day when they vibe code.

Federated git forges can’t come fast enough. Fuck gitlab for so willingly dropping the ball

I’ve used. It works well enough. They supposedly have CI but either it’s not documented or nor ready, I can’t tell.

And there’s no way to get notifications of merge requests, comments or anything actually, so it serves well as a backup or private project host, but not much else, IMO.

It’s old Github UI

Fuck adobe

A true turfblaster found in our midst.

Positively terrible. Thank you for the chuckle.

This might be the root of it. System developers seem very focused on everything but developer experience.

Didn’t know that was still being developed. There are multiple bad memories of it, but maybe things changed. I’ll give it a shot.

IDE, that’s why my very first sentence states that VSCode and its forks are not equivalents.

You learn something new everyday

I bet you AOC is going to be the next presidential candidate.

Get a new drive, and a USB stick, and follow these instructions . Once you get to the installation part, stop your PC, take out your windows drive, put in the new one, and continue.

After the installation, stop the PC, put the windows drive back in, together with the linux drive, and start the PC back up. Select linux at boot up. You should then be able to access your Windows drive from Linux and safely copy your data to the Linux drive.

Keep using linux until you feel comfortable and only then can you wipe your Windows drive and extend linux onto it.

Yes, MacOS is corporate surveillance crap and Linux isn’t.

Fuck off text?