No year will ever be the year of linux on the desktop with this stupid attitude of throwing working code away.
Who is still using a 486 and also needs modern kernel features? Let them run an older kernel. They are going to have to run older software anyway because a 486 with more than about 16MB is rare, and modern Linux distributions require multiple GB of RAM.
Windows, Linux, and MacOS were designed and built long before security was a major concern
This is not even vaguely close to true, although classic MacOS was designed like security didn't matter. All of these operating systems were built after the invention of the computer virus and two of them had security baked in. The third required two antivirus programs for relative safety (gatekeeper and disinfectant) because it had no security, which was always stupid. The modern MacOS is descended from an OS where security was understood to matter. The state of the art in computer security was simply undeveloped compared to what it is today.
When China demanded that vendors operating app stores bend over completely for fascism, Google pulled out and Apple did not. Thus we knew conclusively that they would rather support fascism than leave any amount of money on the table.
Now we (Apple's detractors on this issue) can see that exactly what we predicted has come to pass. Apple is joyfully assisting with oppression anywhere they can do so. To them, government demands for totalitarianism are irrelevant, because Apple sees no problem with forcing users to behave a specific way for their benefit to the detriment of their freedom. Why would they see government oppression in any other way than simply the terms under which they must operate in order to maximize profit?
Corporations never have qualms about bad behavior, but sometimes the people who operate them do. This appears not to be the case for Apple.
By your reasoning you don't know anything about Microsoft's process but you're declaring victory for Open Source.
Oh no, there is no victory. Your summary is pretty good here. But the idea that Linux is provably less secure because old bugs were found is flatly wrong. They were found late, but they were indeed found. How many ancient bugs are lurking in proprietary software that nobody has found for positive reasons and made full disclosures of so affected parties know they need to mitigate? Nobody knows!
Server OSes are more likely to have older versions of software and then backport fixes. Desktop OSes are more likely to default to doing automatic updates, or at least hassling the user to do them.
We were talking about Linux desktop, not Linux server.
The only difference is that servers are more likely to have more outdated software.
How did we get to the point where 8000MB is considered a bare minimum?
Love of convenience, I guess. I often find it astonishing myself. The software might do 100 times more but it takes 1000 times as much memory...
We've had averaging speed cameras in the UK for many years (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Many stretches of road with permanent cameras and often seen on major roadworks (e.g. sections of motorway being worked on for months).
Waze maps them as averaging sections with specific camera sites, so it's still useful.
In many countries including the UK, speed camera locations are public knowledge, the locations are published and there aren't that many mobile cameras (and they're housed in giant Transit vans). I don't bother with anything like Waze simply because the cameras are bright yellow boxes on the top of poles or huge transit vans with police markings. You can spot them a mile away and if you cant, you probably shouldn't be allowed to drive.
You’re not wrong. Remember when they kept saying Kamala would start a war?
Now the orange tub of shit started one himself and it’s totally different and necessary. They also all of a sudden care about the people of Iran.
I figured out years ago that what the far right claims the other side is going to do (or doing) is exactly what they intend to do.
But the biggest problem is that they are allowed to ask you how much you earned in your previous job and use it as a baseline.
The only answer to that question should be:
"No, you don't need to know. I had been underpaid in my previous job for years before finally reaching the limits of my loyalty and leaving. So no - you tell me what I am worth to you right now".
The correct answer is to lie.
Give them the figure you want, not the figure you have.
It's not like they can check (legally, at least in most countries).
Also, "my current role is WFH, so if this role requires any travel I'll need at least a £10,000 increase".
It tends to have fewer exploits in the wild because hackers, when given a choice between going after 60% of the desktop market, and going after 5% of the desktop market, will nearly always choose the 60% piece of the pie. It's just not profitable enough to go after a tiny sliver of the market.
Linux underpins the internet. It's the primary server OS on the planet. High-value data is held on Linux systems. The idea that it's not profitable to attack those targets is silly. They're harder to attack. People still do it. That's why there are still ssh port scans for example.
Are we talking about Apple or the USA here?
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
It is certainly more like Linux than say, Windows.
It is, but IME a lot of software needs architectural changes to work on it, similar to when you're trying to build software for Windows in cygwin. That's one reason I decided it wasn't worth the hassle back when I was running it.
When it comes to being allowed to do what you want with your computer, it's a lot more like Windows than it is like Linux. And it's been getting worse.
But it is also generally more secure, outside of its obscurity
This is a fantasy not substantiated by evidence. Heartbleed--a Linux vulnerability in an open source library--was lying in plain sight for years before some hacker discovered it, and it was exploited in the wild for years before anybody discovered the attack.
Now tell us how many similar bugs are in Windows, and will be found even without the obscurity of closed source. You don't know, because you depend on Microsoft to tell you when they fuck up, but you're declaring this a victory for Microsoft anyway? Do fucking tell.
My idea of roughing it turning the air conditioner too low.
