Re: How sad: Hackers use Windows RID hijacking to create hidden admin account

On 2025-02-08, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-07 12:41 p.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-02-07, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-06 7:44 p.m., DFS wrote:

On 2/6/2025 4:18 PM, Joel wrote:
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when I see Winblows now it just looks inferior.

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What about it looks inferior to what you're using (Debian 12)?
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I haven't run a Linux DE in a few years probably, so I am curious how
they're looking and feeling these days.

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KDE is spectacular, the rest is underwhelming. However, most people
using Linux aren't looking for something pretty since they believe that
the OS should stay out of the way. They would want resources to
primarily be available to the software rather than the operating system
itself.
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Still, KDE compares very favourably with the commercial competition.

 
To me KDE is kind of "gimmicky." I like Cinnamon, Mate and Xfce much better.
(Mate and Xfce the way Linux Mint sets them up, not necessarily "generic"
versions.) I don't like "standard" Gnome at all.
 
That's one of the advantages of Linux. Lots of choice, not "one size fits
all."

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I find just about everything about KDE to be perfect. The fact that it
allows me to know how much wear there is on my battery by default is
spectacular. In Windows, you need BatteryBar to get that information or
to run a command in the terminal. It also makes theming easy unlike
Gnome. Desktop effects are also there if you want to make a change or
modify how it works. Meanwhile, it doesn't feel heavy at all and I found
it to be rock solid. It will definitely be my choice of desktop
environment going forward.

I understand. I don't like KDE. Too "busy" for me. But that's the advantage
of Linux with the ability to choose and use what you like.

As for battery health I can just type inxi -B in a terminal. Now I see I
have a discrepency. The BIOS shows "excellent battery health" and inxi -B
shows 67% health on my newest laptop. I'm guessing inxi -B is right since
I'm only getting about 7 hours battery life on this Latitude 5300. It's
supposed to be somewhere around ten hours (or even 12).

inxi is useful for a lot of things.

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