Tenderizer78

I would keep Windows 10 offline, which is why I would prefer to dual boot Windows 11

I was responding to this. If you have different reasons then that’s fine.

You can still use Windows 10 connected to the internet. Same safety precautions apply whether you’re on Linux or Windows 10.

1. Don’t run executables from the internet unless you trust them. Be extra cautious with Windows 10.
2. Close all the open inbound ports in Windows Firewall (you don’t need them for anything anyway).
3. Close them all again because FFS WINDOWS I CLOSED THEM FOR A REASON SO STOP OPENING THEM.
4. Use a browser that’s still getting security updates, so if you’re on Microsoft Edge for some reason then … nevermind if you’re still on Microsoft Edge in 2025 then there’s no saving you.
5. Keep physical access restricted. I gave up trying to configure bitlocker but if you can set it up then that’ll better resolve this.
6. Keep an eye out for news of critical vulnerabilities, particularly ones that score high in terms of “Base Metrics”.

I’ve also put in a firewall rule that prevents Microsoft Edge from accessing the internet entirely, but that’s more out of spite than security. Windows keeps overriding my Firewall settings anyway so I don’t think it’ll have much of an effect.

Maybe 2027

I know I have other options, Google Drive for example, I just didn’t want to use anything new so I did things the hard way.

Gonna install CachyOS tomorrow.

I know I’m late but …

Doesn’t ClamAV only check for Windows viruses that are passing through a Linux server?

you carry the fate of us all, little one

More maintainers should charge for iso’s. Nobody’s gonna compile them themselves or trust “pirated” iso’s. It’s a real genius move from Zorin.

Now the KDE Discover store on Kubuntu needs to let me say no when an app asks for “Full Access: Can Access Everything on your System”. It’s a bloody text editor, what access could it possibly need.

I still have no idea what secure-boot really does and this was me turning the metaphorical secure-boot dial while checking the crowd to see whether they start gasping in horror.

But secure-boot is so tedious to deal with.

There are countries where you can by an OS-less PC?

No, it doesn’t. I think I may have used a fork of that in Mint though and I had issues with it.

I have no reason to believe you, but even if I did transphobia isn’t a red line for me in terms of software. That is a straight-up purity test. Transphobic views on their own are not uncommon and don’t suggest the software or institution cannot be trusted with my computer.

Thank you, that’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. Wasn’t bundled with Kubuntu (or maybe it was but I uninstalled it because I thought it was Wordpad) and didn’t come up when searching for it in the Discover app, but after going to the official site and opening a link in the Discover app I got it installed. I then accidentally uninstalled it because uninstalling Kate does that.

Now to look up how to clean up the start menu so searching for a text editor doesn’t give me the uninstalled Mousepad or it’s separate settings app (I did it with a 5 second duckduckgo search).

Oh, and I also hate that they’re actively undermining of theming.

I hate GNOME because it feels like an iPhone.

I don’t know much about what Ubuntu is doing but it surely can’t be that bad.

Mint Cinnamon. Just make sure to change the background before she sees it. The first impression is god awful with that stock background.

I think basically all the default backgrounds aren’t great. There are a few passable ones but that’s it.

I’m on KDE as a former Windows and Mint user and it’s really annoying. Especially the text editor Kate. All the hotkeys are different than Windows/Mint, there’s no notepad equivalent and only a notepad++ equivalent, the GNOME text editor doesn’t match the theming, and I had to settle on Mousepad for my replacement.

I had to do a lot of customization to get the system to behave like Windows, particularly the panel. Maybe with ZorinOS it’s better.

When I was a kid (15-ish years ago) my laptop’s hard drive crashed. The repair place told my dad that something broke and it’s not compatible with Windows so they installed Ubuntu. Barely noticed the difference.