Same for people using windows 7
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?
That's the big "what if" that hangs over everything isn't it?
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.
There's absolutely zero need to mention any other OS than Windows if the article is about Windows.
I guarantee you that 2025 will not be the year of the Linux desktop, just like 2024 wasn't, and just like 2023 wasn't, just like 2022 wasn't...
Signed,
Linux users that aren't annoying and aren't driving people away from using Linux with their self-righteous smugness.
Been using linux on my desktop since 1999. Don't need an official declaration.
i don't see how this is annoying when it is literally posted to a community called "linuxmemes"
Nah, 2025 is the year of the Linux on the desktop.
we're sure of it this time!
/s
I mean, I've been hearing it for 15 years, we can't be wrong for that long, right? Which means that next year it's 100%!
Yeah, I also think with just so few alternatives, just by pure chance alone this should already very probably be the year of Linux on desktop
Would it even be a good thing if Linux became super main stream? Maybe we should be careful what we wish for.
How would it be bad? More hardware support, more users not feeding data to corporations, more software support and so on.
I'm not sure. I envision a lot of regulatory stuff happening around the kernel as it becomes more popular & vital to infrastructure. As that happens, the direction of it becomes more controlled and eventually maybe becomes unrecognizable.
But maybe the fact it's open source flat out prevents that?
I really don't know, I'm not a futurists, I was just internet speculating.
The Linux kernel is already popular & vital to infrastructure, servers and Android exist
I thought of a good metaphor even though this thread is basically dead.
I used to smoke cigarettes. In the State I lived in at the time, Oregon, they taxed cigarettes, but not tobacco. So I learned to roll my own & would make around 80 cigarettes for the equivalent price of a single pack of prefabs.
Now, because lawmakers aren't generally smokers, this flew under their radar for years. Until it didn't. Then they sewed that loophole up tight pretty quickly.
Right now Linux is vital to our infrastructure, but I don't think Lawmakers (& Oligarchs) really know that. I guess I'm a little concerned about what happens if they find out.
That's true.
But Android getting more & more locked down as time goes on is a good example of what I'm afraid of might start happening once there are too many cooks in the kitchen.
I'm just speculating out of nowhere.
Hey don't give up on 2024 yet
This is just a meme in a linuxmemes community. There is no need to be offended.
Im sure by next december arch will have 51% of desktop os market share.
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
The way I have always liked to put it specifically is that Linux is not inherently more secure than windows. However Linux is inherently easier to secure than Windows. Namespaces, apparmor, seccomp-bpf, and a very fine grain limited vs super user permission system. Just to name a few top level things.
The tools are all there on basically any system, very well documented, relatively easy to use. And once you set them up they will not randomly change things on you. I say this as a system administrator having to deal with Windows constantly where Microsoft decides that they are smarter than you and fuck your group policy edits because we put out this update and we think this option is better so we're going to revert like half the shit you did. Over half my fucking job and security is just checking what did Microsoft fuck up about my security set up with this update, and trying to rotate through security vendor 2094726 to fill in the absolute basic security processes that windows doesn't provide
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.
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