These YouTube channels not even aknowleging other operating systems than Windows like ThioJoe kinda annoy me
Man I'm just trying to get my external speakers to work without blaring static whenever the powersave kicks in, and nobody seems to know what to do 🤷♀️
Same for people using windows 7
*guitar solo*
If you think being on Linux makes you immune for attacks, I have bad news for you.
there are much less vulrenabilities on Linux. No system is totally unpenetrable, but having 2-5 vulrebabilities is always better than having 30-40
I've got a link for you to click, Mr super secure OS user. I promise your OS will protect you.
Jokes on you, dude is rocking Qubes /s
Here I have a cool program to install. Just pipe this link into bash really quick...
With sudo. Can't forget that or it won't work.
Regardless of us using Linux on our home computers, most businesses and services use Windows machines. Your information is likely still stored on Windows machines elsewhere if you interact with the world at all.
With that in mind, it's worth being aware of Windows security problems when they come up.
Got it, stop interacting with the world
I was already mostly doing this so
What would we do when these happen? What could we do in the moment to change anything?
Join an eventual class action?
Taking the internet into consideration, I would doubt "most".
You'd be surprised. For medical info a lot of that is going to be sorted in windows servers running as either file or sql servers.
People here running *nix OSes while I run a Nix*OS
I mean... a form of Microsoft Defender is available for Linux, but only for enterprise customers if I remember correctly 😅
Yep, my company allows me to use Linux but for Compliance Reasons I need to have Microsoft Defender installed and running. Still beats Windows 11 by a mile
Sometimes Mint tells me there are security updates available. Happened just this morning. Updating makes me feel good :)
And I can do it wherever I want. And my work is in no way interrupted, while the updates go through.
Is not having an anti-virus good for most people though?
most antivirus apps are very invasive, heavy on resources and even spy on you. Windows defender is usually enough. However, virustotal is still recommended
Is this something that someone who doesn't have tech as a hobby cares enough about to change they're os?
I would say yes? Many if my friends in uni were using laptops that had McAfee built in. I'm not exaggerating when I say they were unusable. I removed that shit and those machines were snappy af.
On one side, if you have a brain you're fine.
On the other side, *glances at general public typing google.com into google* ...yeah
there is an update, i applied it at the weekend
Hint: :q!
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