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You can game on Linux for many years now. Windows is mostly mandatory if you play multiplayer games with anticheat
yea pong working on linux doesen’t equal to gaming working on linux. Most games won’t start or play worse.
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You don't need Windows for games since ages. Steam games run on Linux.
Not really if you ever tried. Barely playing music, games obviously don’t work if you ever tried playing games. (hint, game x not beeing terrible doesen’t mean ”it works”). like I said at the start this is fairly obvious.
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Every couple of years I give daily driving Linux a try. I still find that old joke about "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing" to be quite apt.
I switched to Ubuntu "skinned" with Omakub a few months ago. Never looked back. Work with Windows on my work machine and use my *nix box as my daily dev driver and machine for surfing the net, doing emails and documents. I actually use it for nearly everything except vector graphics/dtp & images, as I am still too used to the affinity suite. Will try out Omarchy just for the fun of it - not that I expect it to become…
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Confused by that as well - what version of chrome can be installed without admin?
It cannot. There are malicious third parties who have made distributions of Chromium that are fully functional browsers, installing in the user's AppData folder w/o Administrator rights, that have additional "functionality" like exfiltrating browsing history or displaying extra t This is really what any Electron-based app is. It's just Chromium running out of the AppData folder. There's a whole ecosystem of "shadow I…
https://download-chromium.appspot.com/
It's linked from the main chromium site:
https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/
If you make your machine look like a malware execution sandbox, a lot of malware will terminate to avoid being analyzed. This is just part of the cat and mouse game.
Most windows servers are virtualised these days so I'm not sure this would work anymore. It might look at other indicators though
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You can game on Linux for many years now. Windows is mostly mandatory if you play multiplayer games with anticheat
yea pong working on linux doesen’t equal to gaming working on linux. Most games won’t start or play worse.
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As someone working in infosec for a largish 2000 seat organisation - it's honestly not inaccurate. No matter how much accessible information security training we try to provide and the EDR controls we implement, >95% of our incidents involve an end-user following (sometimes extremely obvious) phishing links. And contrary to what you've said, Windows Defender (in conjunction with Airlock) has actually saved us from ra…
Where I work has recently implemented Airlock and my laptop feels a lot less responsive since. I'm aware of the whole security trade-off, just wondering how noticeable it has been in your organisation, if at all? Having said that, two things worth considering in my case: 1. My laptop is relatively old and, I think, overdue for replacement (8GB RAM, really?) 2. Windows Defender + Airlock + CrowdStrike + Netskope + Nes…
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It cannot. There are malicious third parties who have made distributions of Chromium that are fully functional browsers, installing in the user's AppData folder w/o Administrator rights, that have additional "functionality" like exfiltrating browsing history or displaying extra t This is really what any Electron-based app is. It's just Chromium running out of the AppData folder. There's a whole ecosystem of "shadow I…
I'm not doubting that there are malicious third parties distributing them, but Google themselves delivers Chromium that way: https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ It's linked from the main chromium site: https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/
I wonder if this is still actually the case after Brian Krebs announced it to the world in 2021.
One investigation I worked a threat actor in China socially engineered their way into getting an employee account in a US company created for them. They were so persuasive they also got their account inserted into the approval process as a manager for creating other new employee accounts (at a specific location) in the identity workflow. They did this only for the purpose of siphoning discounts that are available to employees, and they resold those which resulted in about one million dollars loss over a period of a couple of years.
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/elpaso/news/fbi...
I wonder if this is still actually the case after Brian Krebs announced it to the world in 2021.
Yes, absolutely. This is mostly a legal/enforcement decision. If you avoid Russian authorities, they avoid you. Also Russia is nowhere near as fertile ground as the US. There are plenty of low paid entry level office workers in the US who will gladly update their AP payment information for business email compromise (BEC). $2.77 billion lost to BEC in 2024, the most lucrative category. Total losses in the US were $16…