Wow, the number of tabs you have open makes my brain hurt. You use tab groups at all?
As far as Linux hardening, using sudo to do everything is second nature to IT folks. I was initially annoyed that Ubuntu did not have an accessible root account, but since sudo is functional, it’s pretty awesome. Sudo is intended to save you from yourself, something I believe Microsoft tried to do but at which they failed miserably in execution. We become so click happy and want to use everything as soon as they’re downloaded, we neglect to truly understand what we’re about to do when we install something. This was the downfall of XP as an OS as more socially-engineered viruses came about and people just gleefully clicked on anything.
In most enterprise IT shops, you’ll find everyone has 2 accounts: your login user and your administrative user account. I use my administrative user account to do everything work related that requires I think before I do. That’s the whole point of sudo, IMO.
No need to. I just drag tabs i often go to (like FR) or check on occasionally (blogs, etc.) together, and can protect and lock them in FF, thus they are always togther. With colorful tabs you can make certain one a certain color, as well as to choose it to color them by site.
Then there are tabs i want to go back to and read later (there is an ext, called Read it later, but then i never do it seems) when i can better digest it.
And then there is current research, etc.
As far as Linux hardening, using sudo to do everything is second nature to IT folks. I was initially annoyed that Ubuntu did not have an accessible root account, but since sudo is functional, it’s pretty awesome.
No it is not. Bringing up a terminal and running sudo even to deal with files in programs you installed, or copy from your own disks is not awesome, and should be less necessary for a single-user environment than in Windows. And in which i can and often do copy or paste things into program folders and preferences. And UAC is turned off as is Windows Defender.
And if a system file is locked, i use the Take Ownership or Unlocker utilities.
The reason you have less freedom in Linux since sudo is needed is partly because Linux is not as user friendly as Windows, and thus users have to run so many scripts, which can differ from one flavor to another. This is not how to increase usership much from less than 3% of the market.
Sudo is intended to save you from yourself, something I believe Microsoft tried to do but at which they failed miserably in execution.
Rather, they became more like Linux but have a business to run, and thus needed to be more reasonable than those who cannot tolerate the idea of running a OS without having to jump thru hoops to rename a file.
I understand click-happy users should not even see system or program files, but there should be an option to allow much more freedom for power users.
We become so click happy and want to use everything as soon as they’re downloaded, we neglect to truly understand what we’re about to do when we install something. This was the downfall of XP as an OS as more socially-engineered viruses came about and people just gleefully clicked on anything.
That is partly due to lack of "driver ed" in how to use a computer and surf the Internet, as well as cyber criminals becoming more crafty. But as long as patches are kept up, it is mainly the former that is the problem, with "drivers" being careless about how they use their computer and where they go, picking up anything that says "I'm yours."
Increasing security for all is roughly analogous to making it more difficult to get in your car due to car thieves being more crafty. And i suppose you could argue hijacking cars would justify mandating all to use the security methods now employed (but with the mysterious "black box" break ins recently, it may become counterproductive) I guess i am too libertarian in respect to computers (but not morally). I really never needed the extra security in Windows and so do not like having to use it.
Part of the problem is that I also have stiff fingers with decreasing dexterity, so i cannot type fast, and hit the wrong keys in every sentence, so it took about 30 min just to type this. But thank God i can do what i can, and computers are a very helpful God send.
Computers are supposed to enable you to have freedom to do things quickly and with versatility, and which should mean you can do what you need or want to do with the computer and its OS as quickly as possible, rather than being met with "you do not have access" type barriers, that requires extra steps of the sole owner/user.
I use my administrative user account to do everything work related that requires I think before I do.
In Ubuntu you are not to sign in to a administrative root user account - which can be done but not without extra steps each time it seems - and will be warned of WWW3 if you do, but must sudo this and that to even paste a program file.