Actually, I feel like this is the one instance where saying "GNU" instead of Linux is completely accurate, since WSL is not even running the Linux kernel but GNU userland tools... I wonder what Stallman would have to say about that? We've come around full circle to GNU/NT.
It's not running the Linux kernel, but it's implementing Linux kernel interfaces. Microsoft may ship a lot of GNU software now but presumably the same interfaces could be used to run alternatives like busybox and uclibc. This keeps the naming debates interesting, I suppose.
Many people who get ransomwared are naive victims of phishing emails, some of which are fairly convincing. There are usually some red flags if you're paying attention, but it only takes one mistake.
You're right. But I'd assume anyone using Linux (and arch at that) would be smart enough to know what's up. No OS is perfect but someone using Arch is just spreading FUD. Windows is a vector not because of security problems but because of its usage ratio. It just doesn't make economic sense to target any other OS plus the fact that hackers are not god, they need time to perfect their skills and they have it on Window…
>That loser on Arch should talk when Linux and macOS are completely impenetrable.
Windows thug thinks his OS is secure when 99.9% of the viruses, malware and ransomware are all on Windows. There's a reason for this and it's not attributed to your ludicrous assumptions that these infections are all related to people visiting bad sites or downloading bad software - it's because Windows is an inherently badly designed OS that needs monthly patches to patch up all of its known holes.
Save your FUD, I've been using computers for 16 years and I've never had this problem. Malware/Ransomware hit only if you go around the dark corners in search of porn/free stuff without knowing what you're downloading. Even then the built in Windows defender catches it. I love Arch too but people like you are so die hard in their toxicity that any collaboration asking about Windows related stuff is impossible.
That's actually FUD in itself. I have known several people pick up infections from SourceForge which lets face it is not exactly a dark corner of the internet.
> Am ... am I falling in love with Windows? Spend some time with it again. You'll learn to hate it just as much as you did the first time around. For me, it's because of a single factor: BSOD caused by shitty geforce drivers. I used to think the linux geforce drivers were shit because it was a neglected platform. Now I know the truth: windows geforce drivers are full of pain and tears as well. I don't see any of the…
Are video drivers just guaranteed to be shitty in all cases? I can't use Ubuntu 16.04 because Radeon drivers cause constant, infuriating tearing on my screen and the computer hangs on startup every other time I boot up. fglrx isn't much better, but it's at least stable.
You know, I don't know. Nvidia and Radeon GPUs are complicated pieces of hardware and, from what I understand, the drivers have more than a decade of development cruft built up. Contrast that with Intel graphics chips. I don't know if Intel's graphics chips are simpler or if their software devs are that much better or if they just haven't been around long enough to develop as much cruft. What I do know is I've never had an issue with an Intel video driver. But, an Intel GPU isn't going to let me play Doom 2016 on the highest settings either.
> Am ... am I falling in love with Windows? Spend some time with it again. You'll learn to hate it just as much as you did the first time around. For me, it's because of a single factor: BSOD caused by shitty geforce drivers. I used to think the linux geforce drivers were shit because it was a neglected platform. Now I know the truth: windows geforce drivers are full of pain and tears as well. I don't see any of the…
The specific case of terrible video drivers might have been slightly better these days (because part of it has been moved to user mode, so crashing it just means your screen flashes and weird for a second). Spending more time with it can let you find _different_ things to hate, of course. In general, all software suck.
> because part of it has been moved to user mode, so crashing it just means your screen flashes and weird for a second
You mean on Linux, right? Because in Windows 10, going full screen in a youtube video on an external screen routinely causes my entire system to crash (BSOD, error dump, restart).
Save your FUD, I've been using computers for 16 years and I've never had this problem. Malware/Ransomware hit only if you go around the dark corners in search of porn/free stuff without knowing what you're downloading. Even then the built in Windows defender catches it. I love Arch too but people like you are so die hard in their toxicity that any collaboration asking about Windows related stuff is impossible.
We've banned this account for serial trolling. Please stop making accounts to break the HN guidelines with.
OK - but if you've just changed job, the overhead of this will get lost in the noise. And this even assumes that these decisions are rightly to be left up to the employee, and not decided by the company. (E.g., HTML email display and/or displaying remote images may be a security risk, and so it could be banned entirely. It's not unusual to mandate fonts and signature for public-facing correspondence. And so on.)
But there are a lot of things which are extremely annoying in the default settings. For example in localised versions of Outlook, replys don't get "RE" in the subject line but, e.g. in the German version "AW". Also other behaviours which makes using Outlook really painfull. (Which I can't remember because I didn't use for a while now) Yeah, I usualy turn displaying remote images off too. Also, are there really compan…
My Outlook deals with AW and RE transparently, to the point where I don't even see any of them when in conversation mode. What's the specific problem you have with it?
You're right. But I'd assume anyone using Linux (and arch at that) would be smart enough to know what's up. No OS is perfect but someone using Arch is just spreading FUD. Windows is a vector not because of security problems but because of its usage ratio. It just doesn't make economic sense to target any other OS plus the fact that hackers are not god, they need time to perfect their skills and they have it on Window…
>That loser on Arch should talk when Linux and macOS are completely impenetrable. Windows thug thinks his OS is secure when 99.9% of the viruses, malware and ransomware are all on Windows. There's a reason for this and it's not attributed to your ludicrous assumptions that these infections are all related to people visiting bad sites or downloading bad software - it's because Windows is an inherently badly designed O…
'Windows thug'? Please don't break the HN guidelines by calling names in arguments, regardless of how wrong someone else may be.
The gnu binaries used in this article are the ones included in maboXterm and compiled for windows, nothing related to an abstraction layer between nt kernel and Ubuntu gnu bin builds as mentioned I suppose.
Working great anyway.