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

On 2025-02-08 10:43 a.m., RonB wrote:

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

On 2025-02-08 2:27 a.m., RonB wrote:

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.

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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.
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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.

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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.
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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).
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inxi is useful for a lot of things.

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67% health suggests that you routinely charge it to 100% and let it
drain to 0%. I never do. I charge to 80% and usually charge before it
gets to 40%. As a result, even after two years since my battery change,
my health is at 98%. It was the same on the Mac before I got rid of it.

 
I haven't had the computer long enough to "routinely" do anything to it. But
I honestly beleive that these Latitudes were used for desktop computers at
Idaho Power and we're always attached to Docks — so constantly charging to
100%.

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Yeah, constantly being at 100% is no better than charging to 100%. The
batteries also wear out from age, so there's no winning if longevity is
your objective. I just know that staying out of the area above 80 and
below 20 is the trick to keeping them for a while.