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Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes it from the System - Deform (deform.co)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And as I said, we’re discussing software not found in package managers, which is a lot of it.

Do you have any specific examples in mind or are you planning on leaving that as an assertion?

The difference is there is no download button for Linux, just a bunch of code you’re expected to type into the CLI that doesn’t work.

AppImage. All the user-friendly distros are configured so that installing/running those is a button click.

LOL like you don’t on Linux? I mean sometimes you don’t because they literally don’t exist. Like pretty much any fingerprint reader or Nvidia graphics card?

I have never used a fingerprint reader by in case you're interested, my graphics tablet works more seamlessly under linux, both x11 and wayland, than with windows. Can't say much about NVidia Graphics cards but they do, in fact, have drivers. If you're running the likes of Ubuntu it's going to use FLOSS drivers by default (which are getting better and better) and installing the proprietary ones is a couple of clicks.

I don’t know what Explorer is other than a shitty SUV.

It's the fucking file manager. Have you ever used windows. Also the desktop shell, actually.

If it were true, no one would pay money for Windows and Microsoft would go out of business.

Oh my sweet summer child.