Windows 95 software also runs on Linux, with Wine. And it works for me.

“no virus” is because it’s literal extracted from the text, not my words. I explain then what I understand with saying “no virus”, as any device can have virus, JavaScript runs on Linux, Windows and Apple. It’s common sense. No need explanation.

Well, I think they are expensive because they are actually experts, not like random IT hired personal that (in my case) couldn’t even understand how OAuth works.

I said distro instead OS, Linux is the most used OS, many people behind working in secure the Linux environment. The example of this exploit also exists on Mac and Windows for years, and it will always happen.

An admin user will know what they are doing, and I doubt they will install a package from an external source downloaded randomly on internet, for the non-admin users, without sudo they can’t install/infect that malware on your Linux.

But you realize Google did this already? I don’t think they are wasting any money on Windows unless for market domination.

I know about this issue, I have read about it already. No one uses this unless noobs watching YouTube tutorials.

Cannot be compared to the vulnerabilities I pasted (0 click exploit). Any system can be hacked, Linux is the most used OS and still have fewer viruses issues as others, but it still has as any system has.

I never said “Linux doesn’t have viruses”.

About the point 2, it says that Windows cost much more than making your own distro which can be made by 1 single person if you know enough of Linux.

About the final point, that is the excuse, “stick with what you know” so they aren’t really doing their job providing us our needed tools to work with… That’s what I blame, get some Linux IT expert and give support.

Well, there are virus as any kind of device that runs any logic, the thing here is that is harder to get hacked than with this kind of tools that Windows uses.

And I mean getting viruses like this:

• On Windows -> https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/21/microsoft_key_skeleton/
• On Mac -> https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/

So yeah, I don’t need many apps that my Mac has and could be used to hack me with 0 click interaction or with valid Windows certified programs. Still, the “no virus” is not the only reason, updating a Linux system is just a few seconds and your work could have their own repository mirrored and monitored.

“I will do it tomorrow”, I say that to myself and to many people. Not proud of this.

Yeah, my work doesn’t really support Mac at 100%, but we still use it as docker on Windows is much more a pain, so we are using Mac devices outside that Windows system controlled environment, they told us, and we lack the access to the VPN, still we use remote windows to access on our work network, and we can also use Microsoft Office this way and feels like having it installed on our Mac. (Our Mac don’t have licenses for MS Office)

So as I said, I’m tired of people making excuses… it’s perfectly valid 😭

Exactly. Do your work and provide to developers their tools.

Where is the support for Linux then? Why keeping developers locked on such devices?

PDF is a way to make sure everyone can read the document in the same way (like font type, spaces, special characters…) while HTML can cause multiple issues if you don’t do it properly. And for documentation I would prefer some Markdown as I can edit it with a fancy IDE or feel lazy and do it with terminal editor or plain text editor.

But that sounds like a problem with developers and languages or frameworks they are using. WWW is all good.

EDIT: I mean, I don’t like YouTube frontend, so I use Invidious, there are always apps better made, just depends on the developers, if they want to track users with monitoring + ads, the web app will generate a spaghetti code with many frameworks, tracking, requests, etc.

Yeah, I think I could do more work with Linux on VirtualBox than on WSL1/2.

I jumped into another work that only uses Windows and Apple, and they sold me the Apple as a solution to the missing Linux OS to work with, after like 3–4 months… I cry when I see all those issues’ apple has… many bugs even with Microsoft Teams (that should be pretty much official with work tools), I need to install multiple apps to make it work like I am used to working (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai, https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle and https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/ as I don’t know more tools to help me with this mess, but I need to give them permissions again on every Apple OS update), and I am still missing stuff and sucks a lot how they changed the short-keys, it’s an f–king mess, M2 CPUs giving issues… Why can’t I just get a f–king Linux???

Would be cool to access to my bank account via Doom.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=NRMpNA86e8Q

Sorry, what’s the issue with the WWW mess? I don’t get it.

Internet was not intended to be worldwide, it was for military purposes. Still, we all evolve.