What were they smoking when they hashed out this solution?

Makes sense. Thanks for the details.

Yes, I understand this point. LMDE is the backup plan, but is it actually inferior to regular Mint based on Ubuntu? If not LMDE could be default Mint.

If your current distro works, there’s no reason to switch. Switching means a fresh install, repeat whatever customization you want or need, restore your backup. It’s not difficult, but can be time-consuming until you have everything configured they way you want it.

I wonder why they make both Ubuntu and separate Debian based Mint. That duplicates the work.

I would probably jump from ubuntu to mint if they drop ubunutu in favor of debian. But then, debian itself is a perfectly fine distro and i could also use it directly.

Too much choice.

Perl?

The method, they use, requires a client-server architecture. Hence, they cannot attack a local keepass file even if you sync it to some cloud.

HP print cartridges.

I’m disappointed they say coming soon. Laat year or so, when they announced it, everyone assumed immediate availability.

Is there a non-sense free description.

So far, i learned that notepad can open links from Markdown. I assume Markdown calls some Windows API open(link) where link is any string. That’s hardly a vulnerability by itself, that’s working as designed.

Where does the code execution happen? Is it open(https://hackersite.com/exploite.exe)? Can’t be. They’re not that stupid.

Is it open(file:///PowerShell.exe?atbitaryCodeHere)? Who would allow this?

Or open(teams://magic/doThing)?

This sounds like trying to blame notepad (and by proxy all app developers) for a design flaw in the ecosystem

I didn’t know this, but Oracle is shity in so many ways.

Resistent to rust.

Debian is fine distro and many people rely on it as strong foundation including the people that build ubuntu and mint. Maybe Debian is the hidden champion.

When Ubuntu became popular, it had some advantages like reliable release cycles, slightly newer packages, better integration of proprietary drivers. Stuff that was not wanted in Debian stable main at the time.

Other non-debian-based distros also brought some advantages.

Personally, I’d love to see Debian as the base distro with Mint, Ubuntu and others building ontop of it. I like my apt update. I just won’t send novices straight to Debian when the derivates have more desktop users.

Reboot?

How to install Linux software using GUI?

On your GUI Desktop Environment, you use your GUI Application Launcher to start the GUI Terminal emulator. Then you simply type “apt install foo”. Easy.

See, the GUI is not harder then the normal way.

It’s also frustrating that society allows infinite resources for AI illustrations with six fingers, but restricts scientific research.

Well, if you prentend iterm does not exist, you can probably still use a mac to browse the web.

5 years in the EU

If this means the device is usuable and reasonably secure for 5 years, this is fine.

Other than avoiding ecosystem fragmentation, I’m not seeing tangible benefits of running the latest android.

You mean Word, Excel, and so on…

She lives in Austria. So, she is an Austrian Swiss Brown cow.