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    9 months ago

    The only real downside on the open source side is that the fix is also public, and thus the recipe how to exploit the backdoor.

    If there’s a massive CVE on a closed source system, you get a super high-level description of the issue and that’s it.

    If there’s one on an open source system, you get ready-made “proof of concepts” on github that any script kiddy can exploit.

    And since not every software can be updated instantly, you are left with millions of vulnerable servers/PCs and a lot of happy script kiddies.

    See, for example, Log4Shell.



  • Tbh, I don’t recommend beginners to try out multiple distros in the beginning. Realistically, if you don’t have in depth Linux knowledge already, all you’ll be able to differentiate is the look of the DE and the wallpaper.

    I find, too much choice tends to confuse beginners more than it helps them.

    So I’d rather recommend something simple like Ubuntu and let them try out the flavours with the different DEs.

    Choice is better for later when people actually understand what they are looking for.


  • You want some stern words?

    You are a useless peace of dead weight in this community. Your comments suck and you have no idea how people work and how to professionally communicate. I hope you never have a job, let alone one in a management role. You should leave and never come back. Get aborted retroactively! You make the world a worse place by your mere existance!

    How do you feel about that? Are you going to change your behavior because of these “stern words”? Or are you going to think “What an idiot” and ignore everything I said?

    And we both are just anonymous randos on the internet and while this comment is public, not a lot of people are going to read it and it will have zero impact to either of our lives.

    Now imagine I was your boss, both of us are publically known people and I post this on the company social media account together with your full name.

    And people still dig this up 10 years later to laugh at it.

    Please reconsider your interpersonal behaviour.