Environmentalists don't like it when you bury too many sharks.
KISSmyOS
joined 10 months ago
You don't know what your ISP-provided router does exactly. It may let some traffic through from the outside. It may get an over-the-air firmware update or config change at any time from your ISP. It definitely has well-known, unfixed vulnerabilities.
Also, if you rely on NAT, you have to have 100% trust in all devices that are inside your network.
Thank you for your valuable contribution.
obviously loads of stuff is gonna break on arch just due to the bleeding edge release cycle
I keep reading this as if it was fact, but Arch never broke anything for me in several years.
You do need to do a bit more to maintain it, but IMO it's less effort than a release upgrade on a versioned distro. And if you automate it you only need to deal with it once.
Why does the article specifically mention that she's black?
If they charged users any amount of money there wouldn't even be 400000 of them anymore.
Where's the difference to other distros for this?
I know people will disagree, but the correct answer to "I'm new, what distro would you recommend" is Mint. No list required.
It's a capable, easy to start with, general purpose distro that works like Debian, one of the Linux gold standards, under the hood.
It has its flaws, but it gives you a fully functional system with everything an average user can expect from Linux, by clicking "Next" a couple of times. And it's never really the wrong option no matter what you want in a desktop system, freeing newcomers from the overwhelming options that are out there.
So use Mint until you know which distro fits you better.
There's a name for free software with proprietary bits added: Proprietary software
No, they are all available at no cost. Only Firefox is free software.
It will reach Slackware about 6 months before the heat death of the universe.