• Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      172·
      3 days ago

      That’s my plan. We’re not raw dogging the internet any more, like when the Blaster virus went around and we all had to learn what firewalls and ports were.

      These days the main attack vector is going to be the browser or social engineering. The OS isn’t going to save you from either.

        • __ghost__@lemmy.ml
          6·
          3 days ago

          Yeah I will. Only really keeping it around for a few niche games, my daily driver is centos

          • entwine@programming.dev
            1·
            2 days ago

            I’m curious how you ended up on CentOS, especially for a desktop/laptop? That distro effectively died when IBM bought Red Hat, but even before that it was afaik mostly used for server deployments due to RHEL compatibility.

            • __ghost__@lemmy.ml
              1·
              2 days ago

              You’re on the money with compatibility. At work I have equipment with accompanied proprietary software designed to run on RHEL. All hosts on my network run it, about 60% desktop and the rest blades

              A bit niche. I wanted to be comfortable with the system both as a user and as an admin so I daily drive it. Not the best user experience, but I’ve learned how to work around most issues people encounter with it and it’s helped a lot

              My preference outside of that would be really mixed. My spare time is dedicated to virtualization and containers so I’m mostly using a hypervisor like proxmox. As a desktop interface I’d probably choose something with gnome. Fedora is good, I’ve used it in the past and liked it

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      My 10 LTSC runs out in 2027 without extended support. It’s been my main driver for years.

      I also don’t have this issue of accidentally upgrading. Though if it did I wouldn’t notice because I always hibernate to avoid waiting an hour for startup.

      • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
        41·
        2 days ago

        hibernate

        In my experience on a modern SSD there is no difference in startup time between hibernate and normal boot. 10-20 seconds from hitting the power button.

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 days ago

          You’re wrong because

          1. There is no difference between a regular startup and waking from hibernate, it cannot really be compard as two separate things in the first place, the RAM was stored in memory before shutdown. Type of drive does not make any difference. Maybe you were confusing it with Sleep?

          2. Windows runs some fuckery all the time during a normal startup. I’ve seen both Windows 10 and 7 take upwards of an hour to boot. This is avoided via hibernate.

      • kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        I always hibernate to avoid waiting an hour for startup.

        I’m sorry but wtf, I’ve been a Windows user all my life, often on old, shitty PCs, but startup never took more than a couple minutes at worst. Sounds like something is really wrong with your PC O.o

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          It’s been wrong with all of my Windows PCs for over a decade, It doesn’t seem specific to any software on them, so I say it’s a windows general issue. I’ve even run memory diagnostics from a bootable USB, no issues. I’ve verified the same machines can boot Linux fast and perfectly fine.

          I’ve even seen memes about it, it’s a really common problem.