Federico

@ChairmanMeow @Garbagio this is a fair comment. But except for gaming and some niche software (Photoshop, Cubase), I don’t think windows is really better than Linux. Nowadays you can easily use windows software via winboat or Gnome Boxes, and this works well for 50% of the windows-only software. 90% of the activities are in the browser. Many software have valid and usable alternatives. In the end, anyone could use Linux with the same easiness if just it was pre installed, at least in dual boot.

@illusionist @ZILtoid1991 more stable builds, less frequent updates but security issues solved.

@Neptr @ZILtoid1991 in my experience, 90% of the AUR packages work. And AUR is not officially supported by Arch…

@ZILtoid1991
The developers did some communication mistake and used a bad provider for their repo. It looked like they had some SSL error but it actually was an error of pamac showing a wrong error message. There were never any serious problem. I used Manjaro for long, but nowadays, with flatpak, appman, Nixos, distrobox, stew, and so on, you can have updated software even in Debian. I switched after years with Manjaro also because Debian offers the best security standards after Ubuntu.

@possiblylinux127

1. Password is not mandatory
2. Some organizations require ultra-simple password formats (e.g. 6 digits)
3. Afaik password is not enabled by default in windows

Call this security… It’s just a marketing lock-in strategy. A good old password is all you need for encrypting a disk.

@possiblylinux127 Exactly. So if someone steals your laptop it can just press the power on button to read your disk. Security my ass.

@possiblylinux127 And allows to decrypt the disk if someone steals your laptop: it can just turn it on to read it…

@cm0002 Never understood why one should use tpm when there are good old passwords. It would be better to enforce a long password. To me TPM always looked like a marketing strategy masked by security tools: in the end it’s a device that makes it mandatory to use your hard-drive on a specific machine. It’s even weaker than a good password. Am I wrong?