It’s true for any variation of Linux. Hell, the vulnerability (Mimikatz) that was crucial in the most expensive cyber security attack in history is still there in Windows.

And for X11 to be exploited you would need to get and run malicious code in the first place. The Linux security model kicks in before you get to that point.

The security model is also very different between Linux and Windows. Linux is just inherently more secure.

Aurora gets a vote from me. I set it up for my technically repulsive father, and he gets on just fine with it.

They kind of already do. The C used by the kernel team isn’t the exact same as what everyone else uses. Mainly because of the tooling they’ve built around it. I can’t remember specifics, but the tooling in place really helps out in that department.

Also, “memory safe C” is already a proposal for the C lang project.

I’ve never used beeper, but I’ve been using Ferdium for years I have all in one app:

• WhatsApp
• Hangouts
• Discord
• Element (Matrix)
• Nextcloud Chat
• Lemmy

You mean a desktop application? If so you can use the web version, or even better, use Ferdium. It lets you connect to various messaging services and integrates them like a native desktop app.

This was a local instance.

I asked it about Tiananmen Square, it told me it can’t answer that because it can only respond with “harmless” responses.

It uses Universal Blue, whereas Kinoite uses rpm-ostree.

Aurora has a bit of DE customization, which is arguably more polished.

It also leans heavily on Flatpack/Flathub.

The other difference that I’m aware of is Aurora handles updates automatically by default, whereas Kinoite is a manual process.

To be clear, I haven’t used Kinoite at all. But I have Aurora on a gaming system that I use as a kind of TV gaming console, and I’m setting it up for my elderly parents that get upset when an icon on Windows changes (that’s how tech illiterate they are).

Aurora Linux + KDE

It’s an immutable version of Fedora with flatpack support.

This is actually a good setup for the vast majority of people.

enterprise type programs

The idea of elderly people using windows only programs

I don’t think these two groups overlap much, if at all.

the general hodgepodge that Libre Office is

What’s hodgepodge about LibreOffice? I use it daily in a corporate job. There are entire governments that use it.

according to you white savior liberals

Where the hell did you get I’m white? Or that I don’t have Chinese family?

are too stupid and brainwashed to know better.

Or just limited in the news from outside the country.

isn’t a paid Chinese shill.

Ok, so an unpaid wumao.

being xenophobic weirdos

Found the wumao.

The CCP and Chinese people are different things. No one is criticizing Chinese people.

He just mentioned it as an example of a kernel written in Rust. The interviewer asked if Rust isn’t accepted into the Linux kernel, would someone go out and build their own in Rust, and Linus mentioned Redox saying that’s already happened.

I think Linus mentioned Redox directly during the interview

Then anyone running a Windows VM would just switch to a Server edition, which is almost exclusively run via a VM.

If you install each OS with it’s own drive as the boot device, then you won’t see this issue.

Unless you boot Windows via the grub boot menu. If you do that then Windows will see that drive as the boot device.

If you select the OS by using the BIOS boot selection then you won’t see this issue.

I was bitten by Windows doing exactly this almost 15 years ago. Since that day if I ever had a need for dual-boot (even if running different distros) each OS will get it’s own dedicated drive, and I select what I want to boot through the BBS (BIOS Boot Selection). It’s usually invoked with F10 or F11 (but could be a different key combo.

While I generally agree with that, that’s not what seems to be happening here. What seems to be happening is that anyone who boots Windows via grub is getting grub itself overwritten.

When you install Linux, boot loaders like grub generally are smart and try to be helpful by scanning all available OSes and provide a boot menu entry for those. This is generally to help new users who install a dual-boot system and help them not think that “Linux erased Windows” when they see the new grub boot loader.

When you boot Windows from grub, Windows treats the drive with grub (where it booted from) as the boot drive. But if you tell your BIOS to boot the Windows drive, then grub won’t be invoked and Windows will boot seeing it’s own drive as the boot drive.

This is mostly an assumption as this hasn’t happened to me and details are still a bit scarce.

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