Idk I liked 7 over vista from the very beginning personally.

8.1 fixed 99.9% of all of this, it was actually quite good but suffered by being called 8.1 instead of 9

I never minded the metro menu tbh.

It’s funny that windows tried to do what is done on Linux (gnome) and Mac and got blasted for it.

I use a full screen style start menu everywhere else.

What?

Vista was ass until the very end.

Windows 8.1 is the last best windows OS

If money isn’t a problem then gitlab is your best choice.

It’s the most mature of the options you have available to you.

I use gitlab for airgapped networks

Very helpful

Why is their question, so why is it pretty good?

I’d wager SarcOS was them giving a sarcastic response.

C64 ran “Cassette OS” or really just KERNAL

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verbose … not needed?

If the words don’t happen how can I trust computer magic?

Sounds like an error message from a valid tar command

tar -czvf tar_name.tar.gz ./

Did he first have to travel back in time to a time when this was hard because that would break a man.

Super useful technology for security purposes!

Super scary technology for literally everything else.

I think you asking me for “quality study” informs me that I don’t want to talk to you about this anymore.

I understand ideologically you’re all for open source software (so am I, but you can’t see that) and you believe there is no merit to close sourced software. You believe open source software is inherently more secure and nothing will convince you otherwise and to be honest I just don’t care.

In the real world your argument falls flat, the ideology is great but practically it doesn’t shake out that way. If you’re incapable of recognizing the merits AND flaws in both systems then I don’t have any desire to continue talking to myself.

I’ve not at one moment argued against anything other than your narrow view, I am a proponent of open source software and am a contributor to a project I guarantee impacts your life every day. I’m not shitting on open source and never would.

All of the things you say CAN make it better and many times do. That said it doesn’t inherently make it better and just because you crowdsource doesn’t mean you got it right. There is nuance. Democracy always fails on the idea that 1 Million Voices are smarter than 1, which isn’t always the case.

Open Source Software ought to be used EVERYWHERE IT MAKES SENSE and not used where it doesn’t.

The problem is when people make statements that just aren’t true to push for something that can stand on its own without false narratives.

I do agree that your words are in fact a low value argument. We’ve found common ground.

Your heart is in the right place but there is nuance you’re clobbering by not being willing to be open minded.

I don’t need to repeat myself but that’s all I’d be doing.

You’re making the argument that open source software inherently does this better and I’m telling you that you’re wrong. I’m going to cite myself, a 20 year veteran in the field.

It can do it better and often times it does work out this way.

Closed source software also has value and use and for its own set of reasons could make the argument that it is more secure because of access controls and supply chain management and traditional security mechanisms.

I think you read what I wrote as a “no you’re entirely wrong” whereas what I said was “you’re asserting things that aren’t true which is weakening the argument”

Frankly though given the lack of response to what I actually said by anyone I’m just going to rest on knowing in the real world my input is considered valid, here where we’re being fanatics … idk for all you know I’m a bot spewing AI generated drivel.

Maybe the disconnect here is I’m talking about practical application because of experience vs theoretical application because of ideology.

This is literally how I make my living and this is the only comment I’ve made so I’m not sure where you get the idea I think publishing vulnerabilities and PoC are bad … again I literally do this for a living.

Finding vulnerabilities and reporting them is literally what pays my mortgage. Open Source, Closed Source, they both have their merits but to say one is inherently more secure because of the reasons you’re specifying is tacitly false.

My comment is literally only about what you said which pushes a thought that slides to far in one direction. There is a reason no nation state will open source their military hardware.

Crowd sourcing vulnerability analysis and detection doesn’t make open source software inherently more secure.

Closed source software has its place and it isn’t inherently evil or bad.

This event shows the good and bad of the open source software world but says NOTHING about closed source software.

If you’re not running SELinux in enforcing mode and you’re not developing policy then you’re really not doing anything with it, for what it’s worth.

SELinux without a policy similar to a targeted policy seems not advisable on a rolling release system, unless you are actively maintaining a policy for the use case or your upstream package maintainers are releasing robust policy for everything