Somethings have truly been amazing like plugging in a random device and it just works without having to install drivers.

Or my obscure Ethernet only printer that had some interface to add it as an IP network printer via windows custom port that always failed to connect on Windows; on Linux (specifically openSUSE YAST printer discovery) finds my printer, suggests a model number, then gives me a list of gutenprint drivers that support it. I select the driver, it works. No stupid Canon network app that windows couldn’t work with. It also adds it as a CUPS shared printer and everyone can print to it like magic.

But, then on a negative note, there was last week: the ooensource NVIDIA driver fell behind the Kernel release I’m on. So it meant booting to the advanced menu and choosing an older kernel at boottime. After a few times of that I was irritated so just uninstalled all nvidia drivers, added the proprietary repo and installed the nVidia drivers directly from Nvidia. It works now. And with switcheroo package I can right click apos and launch on the integrated GPU or the Dedicated GPU. A problem you’d probably not see too often on Windows

Typical windows troll, doesn’t like the truth.

It definitely teaches you a lot, even if you don’t go and start tweaking source code.

Also OpenSUSE tumbleweed and some other distros have btrfs with built in snapshotting. So if you wreck your install, you just reboot and choose an older (working) snapshot. Them set that as your default to boot from. No downtime from mistakes is nice.

Ambiguous; which has the malware?

I switched when Windows 10 update made my system too slow and turned an old laptop into a useless lump.

It was a learning curve, and choosing what Desktop Environment was hard because of so many choices. But after a while running Linux you realize what a terrible user experience Windows is.

Mint, PopOS and Zorin are all solid choices for starting out because they work well out of the box.

But if you game a lot then Bazzite is presetup to have all the tweaks to make running windows games easy.

The safest way while learning is install on a secondary SSD so Linux and Windows are independent.

If you dual-boot on one SSD you will run into Windows randomly taking over the EFI boot partition and killing your Linux booting. So the two drives is easier. However if you are drive savvy you can partition so that Linux has its own EFI boot partition, the Linux OS then should probe for other OS during install. It creates a chainloader link from Linux boot menu to windows boot. This way Windows doesn’t realize it is loaded from another boot menu and leaves Linux alone.

All this assumes you are familiar with how to, turn off fast boot in Windows. How to set your BIOS to initially boot from a USB stick for install, and how to turn on or off secure boot, how to set a EFI boot option.

Note: everyone says turn off secure boot. Its a good suggestion for getting used to Linux. But when you’ve gotten used to Linux and installs and partitioning etc. Many distros support secureboot, when you reboot it will come to a janky looking screen asking you to enroll the distros MOK, or nVidia MOK. This is putting the signed keys into the secure boot management system so the hardware can ensure what it is booting is not tampered with.

I guess I was thinking of the many Linux users I have encountered that sets same user and root password, or has sudo as passwordless. SMH

Understood

Its running uneccessary stuff for my user, like telemetry, and other preinstalled MS nonsense ai.exe, etc.

And it definetly wasn’t building indexes. LOL. I have excel installed, if I type excel in the search with app filter it can’t find it.

Also I shared a drive between windows and Linux before. Linux GNOME indexing finds stuff instantly, Windows indexed search still takes forever looking for data.

Those are all terrible suggestions lol.

Yeah Linux users can be like overzealous sport parents.

Side note if you do run into hardware issues that is not as simple as installing a package, my suggestion is try another distro. And I have had zealous users get mad at this, but I went through the same situation. I have a 2010 laptop it would not run any Debian based distro or offshoots, and I tried 8-10. They all fail during install with error, or install then and fail to boot with bios/hardware bug. So I tried Fedora and OpenSuSE and those had no problems (rpm based). So whatever was in Debian mainline and trickle down could not deal with the bug. But Fedora and SUSE gave a warning of “BIOS bug, working around it” and boot fine. Oddly enough NixOS works also.

When I described this before, I did have a slew of people saying “you just don’t know what your doing”, or " Debian isn’t the issue here". Lol. Clearly I know enough to attempt 12 or more Linux installs, and having no Debian distros work does mean Debian is the issue.

People.

Yeah, less vectors are better

In Vanadium got to Settings, Privacy and Security, Accessibility, then turn on the Viewer notification.

Don’t forget the ai chat not garbage too. So much wasted effort

Are you using the CLI importer tool?

If they can place exploit code on my machine, I think its already game over, regardless of that bug

I found the WebEx Team app was really good.

Heh. Looks like we have “screening” at 12 months, but based on physicians interaction during the normal checkups. I’m sure there are cases easily caught, but since it is a spectrum a lot can probably slide past a doc in a 10 minute visit. So hopefully parents are seeking more visits if they notice stuff

So a non issue unless somebody has physical access to the machine?

Mac has CLI but newer versions they kind of made it hard to navigate to

My fav so far

Local attacker? So on your LAN