oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]

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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • It’s not user-oriented the way the distros based on it are. apt is mediocre and slow compared to a lot of other distros package managers.

    The out of date software is really important for new users for one big reason, and that’s hardware compatibility. Arch Linux, especially with AUR DKMS, can work with basically anything supported by Linux. Debian will struggle with anything sorta new. Having on old kernel, like Debian does, is one of the worst things a distro can do, for performance, for compatibility, and more.

    Their software is also actually super duper out of date, too. To the point where KDE on Debian and Kubuntu is several versions out of being supported. A lot of software developers are sick of people reporting fixed issues because the user is using Debian, so they tell them to use a more up to date distro.














  • I mean, that’s why full disk encryption (FDE) is more important than a normal user password, so when someone successfully has access they can’t get your data. The US government can’t force you to decrypt data, since passwords are considered protected by the 5th amendment.

    Most crimes are crimes of opportunity, it’s unlikely that someone is robbing a house specifically for whats in your computer, so if they can’t mess around with your computer they’ll just try to steal anything else valuable in a home. If they do just take the whole computer, with full disk encryption I wouldn’t have to worry about them looking through my files, or impersonating me on the internet, or whatever.

    I guess with your threat model having no user password just isn’t a big deal for you, it’s probably fine. FDE though…