I don’t mind talking about Windows, Apple or Linux, but when someone says Linux is just for a “toast”… makes me think of how many devices runs Linux and not only toasters which I’m sure they also do if there is some screen display or Wi-Fi features.

So I reply to them if they talk about it, yeah.

Oh well, I only run services on my cloud, so I need to get SSH to manage them. hehehe 😄

There is a guide how to protect password brute force over SSH, which is the most attacked https://medium.com/@bnay14/installing-and-configuring-fail2ban-to-secure-ssh-1e4e56324b19

But I also recommend you to change the SSH port to another, is simple and pretty effective as all those bots are always using the default port and not doing a deep scan.

Not the same amount of people will do that, if they learn that any app is installed via the same app, pamac or whatever Ubuntu has to install those packages. It’s harder for them to look outside that app and if they do, probably, and I hope they will get into the community forums. Where they can get to know how that works with transparency, something missing on Windows.

But yeah, virus and scams exists everywhere, just that Linux users don’t need to download a .exe or .msi to install anything by default, as far as I know on people around me, they don’t know winget exist, even the most gamer.

But they frame it as going online and downloading from a website; you can do that on either OS even though it’s not something you should ever do. It’s just user error

I don’t think those regular users uses the terminal to install their apps. winget is 3 years old… and is much easier and faster to just run sudo pacman -Syu or sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade (no via Windows updates that forces you to do stuff you don’t want to). Many things changes… and the freedom that Linux gives to use what you like as you like is missing on Windows, starting with the Desktop Environment… KDE has many more features, faster and uses less RAM than any Windows.

Most regular users on Windows stills goes on “google.com” and search for their programs, and then things like this happens: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/google-hosted-malvertising-leads-to-fake-keepass-site-that-looks-genuine/

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You’re funny xD, but it is already, just not for normal desktop users.

Yeah, Windows is easier because it don’t have many distros and when you buy a new PC it already comes with it (no need to boot a Live ISO to install from 0) so that helps people to get started with their first OS, a Windows, so that’s why most people know how to use Windows.

You might want to read this awesome blog: https://duncanlock.net/blog/2022/04/06/using-windows-after-15-years-on-linux/

I suppose you also configure some fail2ban rules to ban those bots. Seems to be the easier way.

Hahaha, the problem is the things you don’t know, not only on servers, on more devices that you ignore and skip just to make fun of it right now.

LOL Linux runs the world. https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=mZXx5oErnIc
The problem was that it was not user-friendly, and you needed to know how to use it. Now things are changing and seems it can run games even faster.

Rust for the win!

Nah, I want to keep the session so if I log in on Amazon, I can open multiple windows and tabs without needed to log in again and again. That is the expected behavior.

They can track VPNs as Tor traces comparing the incoming and outgoing, making noise helps to make this more difficult for them.

No, try this safing.io, unless you want VPN for mobile which ProtonVPN should be okay, but the Portmaster app has more control over what app is leaking requests.

Well I like this way, makes it easy to understand and read. My IDE has a good SQL editor and I can see it perfectly and well formatted and colored…

This is what I mean: https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-server-through-relay/ There is no “NAT traversal” if I’m not wrong.

What’s better than thepiratebay?

Isn’t that the same? Who said that?

You mean this? https://support.plex.tv/articles/200289506-remote-access/ Step 2: For automatic configuration, make sure your router supports the “UPnP” or “NAT-PMP” feature

EDIT: This is what I mean: https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-server-through-relay/ There is no “NAT traversal” if I’m not wrong.

But then others browsers like Firefox will gain popularity… I am okay whatever they do, I never see any ad or ad-blocker blocker and I doubt I will even see any of those.