xorg is a old implementation of x11, which is basically abandon-ware right now. No one is adding feature to it, testing it, or fixing security vulnerabilities. It also lack some common-sense security feature: for example every program cam get every input (keyboard and cursor location) without root, so a key logger is trivial to implement in xorg.
Wayland is newer, with more features (reasonable multi-monitor support, one-to-one gestures, etc). But many application framework and hardware have poor support for it, because it is new. Notably, electron and nvidia are typically the worst offender, like everything on linux; but both has come a long way.
I have wayland on my laptop, since one-to-one gesture is a must for me, and I present quite often using that laptop. My desktop is on xorg, since I have a nvidia GPU and use quite a lot of electron app.
On the other hand if most of your school’s money is in some investment firm, instead of invested in the wellbeing and learning of your employees and students. And you have a investor as the person with the highest salary.
Then your “school” is more of a financial institution than a school. And probably should be taxed as such.
And there are five of us who can afford figs for everyone forever, but decided to use that money to lure underaged teens for orgy outside in some secluded islands.
This article seems misguided, people pick their OS because of what they need. I can list many things with subpar experience on Windows: emacs suck; latex is slow; libreoffice and thunderbird crashes like nobody’s bushiness; opam is straightup unsupported (which means ocaml, dune, coq is a pain); there is absolutely nothing in the app store, means that people will need to resort to commandline tools to install and update app.
All of this obviously will not decrown Windows from a OS with mass appeal. Since the software most people need runs well on windows.
Another example, in my crowd it is quite rude to send a docx file between people assuming people want to use or have access to Microsoft office, so everything is in PDF. Yet in many other crowd docx is the default. We were never bounded by the need of a specific office software, while others do not enjoy the same luxury.
There is needs by different groups of people, and that means they choose the OS that is most comfortable for them. Linux is not going to have 70% desktop adoption rate overnight, and no one is saying that. In fact both the quote in the article and this post explicitly dismissed “linux is ready for everyone” delusion. They are just comfortable in Linux, and what is wrong with that?
Ok I have a question. I’m kinda a noob when it comes to privacy. I’ll follow the guides and do the things to try to minimize ad companies selling my data etc....
It can be the website you are browsing have trackers that share data with facebook, and facebook was able to infer you guys are in the same household via IP information (ISP also sales you info BTW), and push the ad to her. Or facebook might think that you guys could be the same person or have similar interest etc.
I have never used lyx, but how good is the macro support, for example is DeclareMathOperator properly supported? Also say I am using a custom style file like acmart, is it supported?
I mean, I could understand if they used natural gas as fuel for vehicles (which I know they don’t), but they only use it in households. It makes no sense 🤷.
I am sorry, I am not tipping 2$ for people to turn around and get my coffee from a tap.
Tipping waiters will be my final compromise with tipping culture. I never order delivery from app because I refuse to be forced to tip the delivery person after being charged delivery fee and serivce fee. I also do not tip countertop worker.
Bluetooth audio is my least favorite part of using Linux and it seems like my coworkers agree. I hear a lot of praise for pipewire, but it doesn’t match what I experience. Does any system work well for anyone?...
My need for bluetooth headphone is very simple, if I can understand youtube videos, I am happy. And I am using WF-1000MX4, which works wonderfully just using the gnome gui.
I never need to worry about pipwire or pulse audio etc.
In addition to using text editors like vim or emacs and using a tiling window manager, what other programs do you use to reduce usage of the mouse? I recently discovered warpd which is similar to vimium’s hint mode but works globally.
Typically the abstraction to draw elemnts inside a app window is in the application framework, like GTK, Qt, Electron (chromium), etc.
This is also why apps built with the same framework typically have the same problem on wayland (looking at you, electron).
The abstractions you are thinking of is not in the window manager, which only controls things outside of the main app window, like tiling, border, window top bar, etc.
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I think you can just lockdown the bios with a super strong password to get the similar security as macbook, no? Since I think the only one major security feature avaliable on mac, but not on PC, is a locked down bois, so attacker cannot install a malicious OS.
Assuming your bios is reasonably secure and you are using a reasonable OS with reasonable security feature enabled (like linux with LUKS and TPM auto-unlock, or windows with bitlocker), PC should be reasonably secure compare to a mac.
I would love to know what other security features mac provides that is not avaliable on a PC.
Could be, I imagine there would be less work if everyone has the same OS.
I dont work in IT, but I remember there are excellent tools by Microsoft to do mass IT management (but who want to use windows anyway /jk)
would be interesting to see a comparison of IT tools avaliable macOS, Windows, and Linux distros. And how much advantage does immutable OSes like silverblue, macOS, and chrome OS provides against mutable OSes.
All the problem I haven encountered with flatpak is short-term (GPU passthrough, wayland support etc), and all of them either dont work or require a one time fix.
Basically if I dont encounter problem on the frist day, I have never encounteted any problem after that, unless a update introduced some bug in the software, of course.
One of these pulled up at my workplace today and I can not get over how stupid they look and that got me thinking, who thought making a shittier version of an Odyssey was a good idea....
You are actually right. My friend camp with a car with only two doors and barely fits 4 people. and they are doing absolutely fine. Granted they only are a couple, but I imagine a camery can fit a family of 4 just fine, unless you are going to a extremely rurual place with terrible weather.
But I can kind of see the point people are making, that they might need a truck for work, and don’t want a second car for family trip. It some makes financial sense if you only have one car.
But I imagine renting a small SUV or a medium sedan for once a year vacation (with family of 4 or 5) makes more sense for comfort and the environment.
And I have yet to see any American family larger than 3 with only 1 car, so I am quite doubtful of the premise.
EDIT: after very unscientific search of a non-car-guy (aka me), it seems like this car is among the most fuel efficient truck you can buy. So if you ABSOLUTELY NEED a truck, a Ridgeline is probably better than a F150. We are likely indeed mad at the wrong crowd. That being said, I am still quite doubtful that a truck needs to be this large, but I dont think there are many small trucks in the U.S.
I have setup my fedora to use LUKS encryoted partitions. But entering two passwords gets quite tiring, as I shutdown my laptop quite often to get the benefit of LUKS (I am assuming nothing is encrypted when in suspend, please correctme if I am wrong)...
I was wondering what security does the TPM password provides. If I understand correctly, it will prevent attacker from getting the data on the disk.
However, theoretically, attacker can boot the laptop and disconnect the disk to get a decrypted disk. Realistically, I think my laptop will shutdown when the chasis is opened (unless configured otherwise in the bios). So it should be safe?
Then I guess there is not much point in encrypting both the full disk and the home dir together then (if I trust gnome login screen cannot be by-passed), since the data is always encrypted when they are on the disk.
E2E do not prevent client side blocking. Whatsapp app can get image that it needs to block from a remote, then check the recieved message against the image it needs to block; then block the image when it needs to.
Obviously not trying to justify their behavior, but it is important to know that E2EE is not a elixir for privacy and security.
I think both link and image is nice. and people who are too lazy to click can see the content in a reasonable form, people who want to fact check can follow th link.
Different app depends on different version of the underlying softwares. In the old days distro packages apps, however it would cause dependency hell.
Hence with the development in containers, universal packaging format prevails, where each app is packaged with all of its dependencies. so that the system dont need to maintain the dependency of every single app people want to use.
There are different aspect to the same product. IPhone is lockeddown and aniconsumer, but it doesn’t mean every aspect of it is not worth taking a lesson from.
In order for linux to have mass apeal, it will need to be simple by default, and that is where the app store model shines, you just search and click install, everyone can figure that out.
But that doesn’t imply linux has to be lockdown and anticonsumer like iphone. If you want to compile your own kernel, you should have freedom to do so.
Except now you dont need to worry about outdated software even on a super stable base. You get proper permission control and a mispackaged app cannot break the entire system.
Because permission control is what most people expect on phone application, which is another way linux has great default UX that is similar to what happens on phones.
Finally, I don’t think a mispackaged app is supposed to be able to break out of the application sandbox, unless some bug is exploited.
Unless you are referring to the fact that some app are packaged with overly-permissive default permissions. But most people can change the default permission, and only grant permissions that makes sense.
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I’m visiting my parents for the holidays and convinced them to let me switch them to Linux....
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Ok I have a question. I’m kinda a noob when it comes to privacy. I’ll follow the guides and do the things to try to minimize ad companies selling my data etc....
Google wants to use your photos and searches to build an AI storyteller (www.androidpolice.com)
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Edit: Updated the page with some cleanup and better navigation. It can now be filtered by OS and GUI/CLI....
Why do people living in the US use gas as a term for vehicle fuel (petrol/diesel)?
I mean, I could understand if they used natural gas as fuel for vehicles (which I know they don’t), but they only use it in households. It makes no sense 🤷.
ummm not this time... (lemmy.ca)
What's your experience with bluetooth audio?
Bluetooth audio is my least favorite part of using Linux and it seems like my coworkers agree. I hear a lot of praise for pipewire, but it doesn’t match what I experience. Does any system work well for anyone?...
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Applications to reduce mouse usage
In addition to using text editors like vim or emacs and using a tiling window manager, what other programs do you use to reduce usage of the mouse? I recently discovered warpd which is similar to vimium’s hint mode but works globally.
Can someone ELI5 why some apps need to support X11/wayland?
Isn’t this supposed to be a job for the window manager?...
What happens when Linus dies/retires?
Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?
Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides revealed in Google antitrust battle (www.theregister.com)
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Context: this is a legit screenshot I took on my workplace around 1.5 years ago. Hopefully it’s been patched by now? Completely ridiculous behavior
What distro for a MacBook pro late 2013 15'
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What has been your experience with Flatpak?
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One of these pulled up at my workplace today and I can not get over how stupid they look and that got me thinking, who thought making a shittier version of an Odyssey was a good idea....
Question About TPM Autodecrypt
I have setup my fedora to use LUKS encryoted partitions. But entering two passwords gets quite tiring, as I shutdown my laptop quite often to get the benefit of LUKS (I am assuming nothing is encrypted when in suspend, please correctme if I am wrong)...
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