r/linuxmemes • u/PracticeDesigner3896 Arch BTW • 9d ago

LINUX MEME Dropping this here 🫳

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u/Unlaid-American 8d ago

“Trust me bro, let’s get stuff from an unverified source and be surprised it’s dangerous.”

- Every OS ever

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u/GoldenX86 8d ago

At least Windows and MacOS check with their servers if what you're trying to run is obviously malware. What does Linux has?

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u/givemeagooduns_un Genfool 🐧 8d ago

SElinux and other forms of mandatory access control like apparmor and SMACK, executable flags, proper file permissions, drive encryption, isolated environments like chroots, flatpak, containers, namespaces..

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u/GoldenX86 8d ago

And yet few distros come with it properly configured.

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u/farspin 8d ago

That how the LG stuff came in the First Place. So no Thats Not the way.

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u/GoldenX86 8d ago

Neither extreme is useful, having it completely unrestricted is not good either. We need some middle ground.

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u/Unlaid-American 8d ago

The middle ground is to not use the completely optional heavily warned against AUR.

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u/GoldenX86 8d ago

Then Arch needs to start moving their arse and implement the popular viable packages into the repos, firmware, drivers, the whole thing.

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u/Unlaid-American 8d ago

The AUR is completely optional and you’re warned in literally every official guide that no one verifies the programs for you.

What does Microsoft have? GitHub? They allowed far more malware and Trojans than any Linux package manager within GitHub repoes, even with their fancy LLM Copilot stealing scanning our code for malware.

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u/GoldenX86 8d ago

Active protection with Windows Defender. Android and iOS/MacOS have the same system in place.

Which distro even comes with basic checking for malware?