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I wish there was a linux distro made by people who love windows, not linux.
There is a aphorism. Bsd was made by people who love unix, linux was made by people who hate windows.
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I'm a windows user since 3.1 and don't know much about linux except the few trials and my pihole. What's the impact of having systemd (or not) for the everyday layman like me that just uses Visual Studio Code to build flutter apps ?
Nothing. Systemd is a suite of software that handle a lot of the low-level operations on Linux (In particular, the service manager, some network configuration, along with some other stuff). Historically, those operations were handled by different services (like SysvInit). A lot of people are mad about it for a lot of reasons, but if you're not a system administrator, it's probably better to stick with systemd, since…
And even, probably, if you are.
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Mine, and I like it to stay that way. A TPM can be a valuable tool for protecting my data, making it difficult if not impossible for anyone to decrypt my drives. TPM+PIN is hard to beat.
TPM's true owner is the NSA, not you or I. https://www.stat.rice.edu/~dobelman/kstorm.txt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6337282 https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16711478... https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-german-government-war... https://supplychaindigital.com/technology/nsa-trusted-comput... https://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/08/22/windows-8-securit... https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/secur…
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if Linux full disk encryption would have a more user friendly UX a lot of Linux users would probably use that too its a very convenient feature through is not convenient to setup and a lot of Linux users never trusted it to be secure, i. e. a lot of people expected an attack like this sooner or later
The current state of userfriendly is quite good. In Ubuntu it's just a checkbox in the installer and input a passphrase.
at least the recent ubuntu versions when using the default full disk encryption setup do setup decryption using TPM you still need an additional password as without you would e.g. lose access to your data if you change some hardware, you motherboard brakes or depending on how they set it up you also need the password after kernel upgrades etc.
but the vulnerability allow someone with hardware access to access all your data by booting their code but messing with the TPM in a way where it still measures as if it's was booting your code
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Microsoft said they were ending support in 2025, which is what 8 year life for the OS? I don't even think Apple hits 8 for OSX updates. They obsolete the laptops more quickly than that, even if they do hit 6-7 years regularly.
Windows 10 was released in 2015, so they will have offered 10 years of support, which was the standard policy in place ever since Windows Vista (Windows Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10). Apple does not support any macOS version for that long, and is unlikely to support a current version of macOS on any given device for that long.
Honestly TPM is probably creating more bad than good at this point. Every time I think about the millions of computers that will be declared worthless this year, it makes me a little bit more angrier.
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I did find it odd that my Ryzen 7 1700X (8 cores, 16 threads, 3.4GHz) was suddenly "not good enough" to run the OS.
It'll work fine, Microsoft even explains how to upgrade: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/installing-windo... They chose an arbitrary cut-off date for hardware support for their new OS. They decided not to support old stuff anymore and they had to pick a date/technology platform. It was always going to be arbitrary. In my opinion they should've picked a clearer distinction (i.e. require a certain level of…