2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

  • Takios@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    People don’t care about security until they get hit. Source: working in IT for 10 years.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      And then suddenly they care a lot and do all the wrong things for wrong reasons because they know shit

      • Madlaine@feddit.de
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        7 months ago

        “I don’t worry about missing security patches. I just have 5 anti-virus tools running simultaneously, they keep me safe.”

          • De Lancre@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            I mean, they do make your device slow. That why tools like InSpectre exists. For some old cpu’s like my notebooks one it can be up to 20% performance impact, so if you not planning to use it with internet (or at least as main access point via browser) ever again, why not get yourself free performance?