[ShadowAce]

Hat tip to Red Badger for the link!

[ShadowAce]

[BereanBrain]

MSOFT was hacked by chinese, read state department emails, and said they knew how to fix it, and the gov after investigation says MSOFT did not even know how the hackers gained access.

There is a huge movement away from MSOFT because of this. Most vulnerable is the 0365 stuff.

[ducttape45]

Interesting......

[Carry_Okie]

I’m still having trouble migrating a 14GB Outlook.pst file to Thunderbird. Without that, my migration to Linux is on hold.

Then there’s an equivalent for multilayer Acrobat, which is another can of worms.

[fretzer]

>Last month saw Andres Freund, a PostgreSQL developer at Microsoft, discover malicious code that could break sshd authentication, potentially posing a huge threat to Linux. Thankfully, it was caught early.

XZ Backdoor: Timeline and Overview
https://odysee.com/@seytonic:c/xz-backdoor-timeline-and-overview:6

[Boomer]

Except for a few apps and programs, I don’t see why anyone would use MS as their primary operating system. Far better to have two separate drives with Linux as a primary (I like Mint) and MS as a secondary.

Of course work computers are different. MS does have a robust network ability and the ability to reload the OS remotely. Still, the overbearing feel, the intrusiveness of MS in general makes it a non starter for general home or small business use in my opinion.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I bought a refurbed laptop a few years back that has Libre Office installed. It works just fine for what I need to do, and it’s free.

[RideForever]

I bought an HP laptop with a ‘-s’ attached to its model name. It’s promoted to stand for ‘safe’ and ‘secure’, and ‘sales brochure’ because it only allows software from MS to be downloaded.

[Pollard]

The state's Minister-President Daniel Gunther said the move from proprietary to open-source software was being made to ensure independence, sustainability, and security.

If only we could do that with our elections systems and machines. All Open Source including the machines's specs. Of course the dems wouldn't be able to cheat that way which is why it should be done, state by state. Maybe Elon Musk will take up the project.

[sauropod]

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[Pollard]

There was a country in South America that did the same and even had Linux based PCs in the schools.

[Paal Gulli]

Being a card-carrying propellerhead, I recognized the OP's story was lacking the single most critical detail. What flavor of Linux? (Germans=openSUSE?) So I checked around.

And I found this same identical story already had been published online in 2022. And in 2018.

[linMcHlp]

LibreOffice

[dayglored]

Windows to Linux switch ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to ShadowAce and Red Badger for the pings!