zwekihoyy

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago

who do you think is maintaining a majority of packages of linux? there are plenty of reasons to use Linux over windows, I haven't touched windows in a good year or two, but it is immensely less secure without significant hardening efforts that aren't exactly trivial to understand. Windows isn't great on security either, MacOS is ahead of it and ChromeOS is even farther.

I will concede, assuming you have the in-depth knowledge required, you can build a more secure platform with Linux due to the ability to compile the kernel with only needed features and being able to fully control what is allowed. out of the box, no custom kernels, basic user experience? Linux sits at the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

you're conflating security and privacy which are two entirely different subjects.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

nextdns is the most performant option I've used. it often beats our cloudflare even. adguard wasn't bad but it was a bit more cumbersome and very slow.

I don't like recommending self hosting as opening ports on a private network isn't a great idea. you could use something like cloudflare or tailscale to bridge access but you'll run into issues with network speeds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think using virtualbox is the bigger offense here.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

there is little difference between "open source but you need formal education to be able to dig through and understand the documentation and code" and closed source. open source is still better for ethical reasons but for 9/10 users, it's not reasonable to check the source code and they are losing any potential "security" benefits that was provided.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I've been working on one for a minute but the best solution I've come up with is searching every package manager when search is invoked but otherwise requiring the package manager to be declared via pkgman.package for installs/removes etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

"appimage doesn't suck" is a funnier joke than the original.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

don't have mobile data? wym lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

people are even dumber than I realized holy shit. I knew people weren't willing to go far for security measures but this is actually much worse than I would have guessed.

laziness, ignorance, or privilege? I'm unsure which of the three causes this. I find it hard to believe it's ignorance because online scams and hacks are very well known and I've always hated "laziness" as a concept.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

wh... what. lmao yall just say as many buzz words as possible.

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