Luigi (with Linux Mint logo) and Mario (Ubuntu logo) come in

Mother: It’s-a the Ubuntu Bros!

Linux Mint (Luigi): Mama why-a you never remember my name?

Mother: I’m-a sorry Green Ubuntu

  • cameron_vale@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Why does anybody use ubuntu etc when they could use debian?

    It comes with like 6 desktops right in the installation. And there are another 20 more available too.

    And ubuntu etc is just debian with a fancy desktop, right?

    And debian is fast, lightweight and stable as heck. Don’t they use it on the spaceshuttle?

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        1 year ago

        Don’t you just love how with phones you don’t really have one?

        Google is breaking their backs locking down Android tighter than a nun’s cooch, and generally enshitifyijg every garbage product they offer. Where’s my third fucking option?

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      1 year ago

      My guess is: Too outdated packages. Debian experimental fixes this, but it’s not noob friendly to enable those. And flatpack is too recent.

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        This was the one for me, was running Debian a few years ago, I was really happy with how everything worked.

        But at work I noticed a lot of tools I needed where pretty old. Like an old version of maven or an old version of Firefox or npm.

        You can probably work around it, but I just went back to Mint again.

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      Why does anybody use ubuntu etc when they could use debian?

      Debian is good, but people working on polishing a thing from 9 to 5, 5 days a week can do a lot.

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      ubuntu has firewall protection already to go. I heard if you used debian you have to install UFW or other things on your own

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          For everything? You still shouldnt be running all ports open around. As it would ease the work of hackers getting backdoor access.

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            So just close the ports (or more precise: Do not open them, as “closed” is the default for most software on Linux).

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              Yup, and if some bad software wants to create malicious webserver they can not do it as all the ports that are open are used in a legit way. And thus can not really communicate either one or the other way.

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                A webserver listens on port 80 or 443. Neither port can be claimed by a normal user (no port below 1024 can). But yes if you manage more than your own user on a desktop AND these other users are not allowed to start programs on their own THEN a firewall can be helpful; but this is not a normal situation for a desktop-client, isn’t it?

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        I think the real time requirement can be relaxed for self contained experiment packages. And given that the shuttle ran a healthy number of student experiments, it’s pretty likely that X system has appeared.

        I believe crew laptops for email and stuff are also running non real-time systems.