2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

  • Takios@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    People don’t care about security until they get hit. Source: working in IT for 10 years.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      And then suddenly they care a lot and do all the wrong things for wrong reasons because they know shit

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        7 months ago

        “I don’t worry about missing security patches. I just have 5 anti-virus tools running simultaneously, they keep me safe.”

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            7 months ago

            I mean, they do make your device slow. That why tools like InSpectre exists. For some old cpu’s like my notebooks one it can be up to 20% performance impact, so if you not planning to use it with internet (or at least as main access point via browser) ever again, why not get yourself free performance?

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      7 months ago

      Even IT people don’t give a shit about security until it’s way too late. Source: getting out of a job where the median age of a server is around 3-4 years old with no updates and runtimes hard installed outside repositories.

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        7 months ago

        I think this is just kind of a side effect of capitalism.

        If it’s costing them in the short term, and the results aren’t evident or won’t be seen until the long term, they almost always won’t do it.