B1tF1ghter: Gee, is that something new? :P
Because afaik there is deepweb and then there is darkn*t and only one of them CAN be "evil".
(in before I get massively downvoted [AGAIN] SOLELY BECAUSE this post is LONG)
paladin181: In RE: BSoD on Linux: Yes, I understand, it was in response to his barb. However, I have had very few crashes in general on Linux.
Well Linux is far more stable than Windows in general.
Tho it can definitely be crashed, and if not then still softlocked.
Example: try to run livecd, obliterate the available RAM and forget you have no swap. (don't ask me how I know)
The whole "I don't need swap if I have a lot of RAM" is one of the mindsets I hate the most btw since it is a COMPLETE misunderstanding of how Linux memory subsystem works, how memory pressure works, how it is literally DIFFERENT depending on if there is ANY swap or not, how vastly differently OOM killer behaves IF there is swap, etc.
paladin181: It's pretty nice, though I wish it was a little more gamer friendly. SOME things are still nearly unplayable on it.
And I wish for some other things.
Such as for Linus to reconsider his attitude to kernel architecture "ALREADY".
Instead of "what to throw out of tree" we all should be having "is this the time to switch from monolythic to something else" conversations.
It's utter BS imo.
Like, the "it's getting out of hand" conversations will naturally only happen more considering where this is going so far.
paladin181: And the deep web and dark web are often synonymous these days, probably due to excessive misuse of the latter term. So that was an unfair criticism.
And hacker (just breaking security, not neccesarily to make malicious acts) is almost always used as a replacement for "cracker" (malicious intent).
But overall frequented general misuse cannot be an excuse for us, those who know the difference, to misuse it too.
So it wasn't even a nitpick. It was a mild correction.
paladin181: ReactOS is something that interests me greatly.
I have not used it personally (the project doesn't exactly follow my desires and I have quite mixed feelings about it) but I suspect it is even MORE suspectible to viruses than Wine, considering how the project in question handles Windows originated binaries (I mean React not Wine).
On a side note this is something that makes me somewhat cringe:
How majority of people using Linux don't seem to understand that "oh I don't need to use antivirus if I use Linux" is 100% invalid.
1.You can avoid using on-access scanner if you have SANE security rules and have ACTUALLY considered attack sources on YOUR deployment (which needless to say MAJORITY has done neither). That doesn't mean you should not use on demmand scanner and scan basically EVERYTHING originated from outside the very machine you are trying to protect. Btw there are Linux specific viruses. And they are some of the most nasty existing.
2.Due to how Wine is DESIGNED it is NATURALLY going to run Windows viruses, MOST OF THEM in fact.
And given how some satirically high % of people using Wine (if I would have to shoot blindly I would say AT LEAST 84%) don't remove the default symlinks ("it's a free real estate" memes in regards to thy harddrive wispered by supposedely-Windows-only viruses intensify) average tho owned storage has NO security whatsoever.
People seem to generally not understand nor remember that Wine is NOT a sandbox and merely HAVING Wine on a deployment is ALREADY rather high security risk. Don't even get me started on how Wine has binfmt enabled by default. Also default MIME associations are VERY "f security" esque.
