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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What would be your distro of choice if you take the security with ease as the top priority (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by tiz@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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With the recent windows 10 EoL news, I was able to move my dad over to Linux mint. But he does a lot of finance stuff. Long ago, Linux had a belief that desktop Linux are not the primary target for crackers but I don’t believe that true anymore since it’s getting significantly popular lately like Europe government migration over to Linux and Libreoffice.

My question would be , given my dad is just as careful on Linux as he has been on windows, would it be fine to do finance like banking and trading (not the fastest kind )?

If not, what would be your distro of choice for that? Even browsers (I installed Firefox and Edge from Microsoft website deb file)

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[–] tux0r@feddit.org -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

OpenBSD. No Linux, but much more secure. And yes, there is quite some amount of Linux-specific malware around these days.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah now it makes sense why you are spamming the Ring reaper. Still needs an exploit to get it on your machine. BSD has way less hardware support then Linux.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The precise amount of hardware support of an operating system largely depends on your hardware. For example, iOS runs on iPhones while Linux does not. Does iOS have greater hardware support now?

Frankly, there is not one piece of hardware in my household that wouldn’t work with OpenBSD. I’m sure I could say the same about Linux. And you.

Exploits for Linux systems aren’t exactly sparse, actually.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Android runs on the iPhone: https://projectsandcastle.org/

iOS might be Unix-like. But I don't see that anyone is working on Linux specifically.

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True, but my issue with OpenBSD is that the performance is really lacking in terms of desktop smoothness. It feels like sub 60 fps compared the smoothness of Linux and FreeBSD.

I hope it's just a current driver incompatibility and not related to their hardening. Will try again once 7.8 releases.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

OpenBSD gets SMP improvements all the time, so yes, chances are that 7.8 will be even snappier. For banking, however, desktop smoothness would not be my primary concern.

[–] oneguynick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

There have been some pretty giant performance jumps since the 6-series. I find running -current totally reasonable for a desktop user.