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Comment by elitepleb

4 years ago

Don't you love it the ability to compile and run software on your hardware is controlled by a third party over the internet?

I sure love the SAAS future we are heading forwards.

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MeinBlutIstBlau  4 years ago

I will be a full on linux junkie when that happens.

  • freeone3000  4 years ago

    It IS, though. SmartScreen on Windows doesn't check binaries created on the same machine, but you'll get flagged if you move the untrusted binary to another machine you own.

    • meibo  4 years ago

      Note that SmartScreen has an UI that lets you bypass it without having to disable it system wide, and has a sane timeout (I believe 30 seconds) after which it just pops up a dialogue box telling you that it can't check the binary, allowing you to continue.

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    • kuratkull  4 years ago

      Unless this is a 2004 feature, it does block binaries compiled on the same machine. Not very fun if you are compiling stuff repeatedly with a couple of second wait-times when running the binary.

    • hnick  4 years ago

      I'm not sure what they call it, but Windows does get in the way for things you compile on your own machine. I compiled the JuicyPotato exploit and tried to copy it to another local folder and got error 0x800700E1 and the EXE went missing.

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    • nichch  4 years ago

      Unsure if this is new, but as recently as September 2020, Windows definitely SmartScreen'ed an executable created on the same machine.

  • phendrenad2  4 years ago

    This is a big conceit everyone holds - that Linux will be an acceptable substitute for MacOS. To be perfectly honest, if Apple shut down their Macbook factories and got out of the computer game entirely, and everyone flocked to Linux, it would be several painful years before Linux would be as usable as MacOS is today.

    This is why I try out Linux every few years, and file lots of bug reports when I run into issues (mostly in applications - the core Linux kernel is solid). I've even contributed code to Linux apps that I don't intend to use right now.

    • swiley  4 years ago

      I guess this is where the disagreements about usability on Linux come from. I've been using Linux based OSes since I was a child and IME when you run into brokenness it's almost always the user space (often something flashy from gnome or kde or occasionally freedesktop.org.)

      Most things are more than doable on Linux but often you're choosing between stuff that works and stuff that looks pretty.

  • danbolt  4 years ago

    I’m slowly transitioning as competently as I can.

    • MeinBlutIstBlau  4 years ago

      Mentally I'm there. But in terms of convenience I'm not. Thankfully my entire workflow has been done with OSS compatible with linux in mind so switching over is little more than an inconvenience for me. It all started because I couldn't use specific software in my workflow with linux...even if I paid for it. So then I started looking for good OSS alternatives and now I've basically become OS agnostic.

  • Iolaum  4 years ago

    Are you sure? It's happening piece by piece so that its preferable for most people to bear one more bad thing than bear the cost of switching.