cp of all things
cp might sound simple because its a very necessary thing for an OS to do, but there’s quite some technical depth to each of the core utils, if it were simple people would just be pumping out coreutil practice projects just like they do with “generic CRUD web app 5000”
Hold on, let me adjust that fedora for you
Why do they call it a shell though? It looks more like a WM or DE
KDE absolutely ridiculing Windows yet again
Meanwhile Microsoft broke the fucking Notepad
This is exactly the post I was trying to find today as I wondered the same thing about Red Hat and IBM having leverage over these projects.
I don’t know to what extent that happens, but any FOSS project being used to benefit a profit driven company (the software engineering giant IBM in this case) is a big red flag for me.
Quoted from the Arch wiki:
The current situation of anti-malware products on Linux is inadequate due to several factors:
- Limited Variety: Compared to Windows, there are fewer users/clients resulting in limited interest for companies to develop products for Linux.
- Complacency: Many believe Linux is inherently secure, leading to a lack of awareness and focus on malware protection. This creates a gap in proactive defense mechanisms.
- Lack of Features: Existing tools often lack advanced features which are common in Windows anti-malware products, making them less effective on Linux.
This is especially bad because the amount of malware on Linux is increasing just as the possible attack surface due to the increasing number of Linux-based servers and IoT devices.
Currently on Linux one of the few existing and actively developed anti-malware solutions is ClamAV.
There is no inherent mechanism that makes your system secure to viruses just because it’s Linux. This is mostly said because, Linux being a small percentage of desktop users, it’s not yet common for hackers to target Linux systems because it’s not worth the hassle when you can just target a much larger audience on Windows that is on average much less tech literate too.
But as Linux popularity grows, viruses will start popping up on Linux as well, so it’s never a bad idea to use ClamAV. You are already more protected when you use package repositories instead of downloading executables from websites like you do on Windows, and Linux has better file system permissions, but you still need to be careful what you’re downloading and running.
Pretty unhelpful to the discussion, OP is looking for a fix, not distro suggestions
Hating on the humanities has been a talking point of the right wing for a long time, specifically because the empathy it nurtures leads to solidarity instead of survival of the fittest mentality. They say that these studies are useless to society, while capitalists are the only class that truly sits on top of society and leeches off of it
Nobara does seem pretty cool
I’d say Bazzite but I would warn him (and since he’s a developer already it might not be a big deal) if he’s looking to do any sort of dev work or whatever with Bazzite then prepare to utilize stuff like distrobox, flatpaks, etc to accomplish stuff like that
That’s what I figured, I would be very annoyed to have to use images for software I would simply do an apt install for in other distros, so I’ll leave out Bazzite from my options definitely
This is usually a good idea, but I think Arch would be a bit too much for him
Still, any Debian derivative would be just as easy for me to help and also for him to find help online, so that’s the main reason I’d choose Mint over Bazzite
ujust is not a package manager, the way I understand it from this thread is that it’s just a convenience script that internally will use one of the other methods shown in the doc you mentioned (brew or flatpak for example). So it still seems risky to me not to have access to common linux package managers besides brew
Rawtherapee is really fucking good, I used it on Windows before discovering Linux
proton.me is in THROWAWAY_EMAIL_DOMAINS lol
Apparently you’re also a filthy commie that should be Operation Condor’ed if you prefer to use an email provider that doesn’t spy on everything you send and receive