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  • but generally people just don’t install Windows, it’s already there

    In my opinion that’s the main point.

    People love to discuss how Linux isn’t fit to replace Windows (yet) or how it needs to be more user friendly or how it needs to work better out-of-the box.

    Yet in reality 90% of the users couldn’t install and properly set up either OS from scratch. But with Windows they simply don’t have to as it’s already pre-installed and set up. And so they somehow fool themselves into thinking one just runs automatically while the other needs additional work…


  • Yes, they often do… implicitly.

    Every time someone pretends that it’s a Linux problem that he had to look up and install a certain driver because it “wouldn’t work properly out-of-the-box” he is basically lying because guess what… Windows doesn’t work properly without the right (externally downloaded) driver, too. Or it required you to install the newest DirectX version for decades before you could even start any game… Yet somehow I never read complains about Windows being unfinished and needing to improve because you could not start gaming out-of-the-box.



  • Then there is your answer:

    You see the whole article, others don’t. Publishers sometimes decide by your IP, your location etc. if you are allowed to read it freely (also putting rate limits up, so if enough people in your vicinity already saw it you will hit the paywall reasoning that you are already interested and more willing to pay). Or they simply put up the paywall later based on how popular an article is.

    Or in short: a lot of new links have paywalls because the people posting something didn’t even know there was one.

    PS: many people regularly clicking news from all over the world also often have addons, plugins and filters running that circumvent a lot of those paywalls automatically, so we sometimes tend to forget about them…


  • Ooops@feddit.orgtoLinux@programming.devSomeone Slipped a RAT into Arch Linux!
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    2 months ago

    There’s a RAT in Arch Linux (because someone made one downloadable in the Arch User Repository) is about the same level of non-sense as telling the story of how Windows ships with hundreds of viruses because those can indeed be freely downloaded as .exe-files from the Internet which you can access via Windows. 🤣

    Now that I think about it… It’s even worse. You cannot actually get an AUR package without explicitly installing the tools to get them (and most likely reading the disclaimers and warnings for using the AUR on the way), while you can can in fact download and execute malicious content with the pre-installed Windows tools.