

Trusted sources, only.
Same as Windows, Android: sideloading (tarballs, flatpaks, snaps whatever) is a no-no.
Like bash curl install.sh bad
💻 Unix - Infosec - OSS enthusiast
🚲 2 wheels and “640cc should be enough for everyone”
☔ Something wrong with me ? feel offended ? that was probably not on purpose: Please turn Internet off then on again…
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Trusted sources, only.
Same as Windows, Android: sideloading (tarballs, flatpaks, snaps whatever) is a no-no.
Like bash curl install.sh bad
Linux relases of commercial antivirus editors do catch linux malware binaries, and platform specitic threats. Like crypto miners, webshells on your selfhosted part of the Internet, javascript malware (pretty much living in the browser, OS agnostic)…


That’s a pretty big problem, I couldn’t care less about the language. But stepping away from GPL is not good at all.
Schrödinger car quantum computing edition
Must take care, this one in particular opens tuna cans pull tab.


Thank you for awakening a forgotten trauma.
Then, Nvidia drivers lags behind new releases on this distribution. It’s not helping, I went from tumbleweed to mint because of that 🥲
Then Mint is Ubuntu refined for technophobe or people too busy to mess with their OS, plus perfect ability to reuse all Ubuntu targeted software and skills.


Please hold still and look straight at the funny webcam



And by setting your VPN right you mean activating full tunneling, blocking connections if the tunnel happens to disconnect, enforcing DNS through the tunnel … did I miss something?
IDK if it’s Mint specific, but cinnamon desktop has a network management app with native support for VPNs
Monorail cat, solar powered edition
+1 for NetBSD it’s such a great OS for ressource limited platforms. Rough edges by today standards but it worth a try on OP’s PC.
Edit : would you please post something like neofetch screenshot when your eeepc is up and running ? :)


And the LTS after that : Wabbits
Remember : using virtualbox at work is not free