Lka1988

This is the kind of attitude that drives people away from open source.

Yes, people should read the manual, but at some point they will have questions, and there are a lot of projects that aren’t clear on certain things. Such as YAML changes.

I don’t like Ubuntu for similar reasons, but if that what it takes for someone to dip their toes into the Linux pool, then so be it. It’s still Debian under the hood.

Could it be a competitor for that particular product? Hired some foreign entity to hit anything related to their own product?

Thunderbird isn’t an email provider, just a client. What are you running for your email server?

Bahahahaha

OS security has gotten far better though, and there are a literal shitton more devices to target (like IOT crap) than someone’s slighty out-of-date Linux install.

Incidentally, that’s exactly the same number as the total number of Win95 licenses sold, and I can’t recall Win95 being “too niche” for malware. Quite the opposite.

In Win95 days, “always online” was simply not a thing for the average household. Getting on the Internet - if you even had a connection at all - was equivalent to making a phone call, in that you “called in” to do the thing you wanted to do, then “hung up” when you were done (yes, I know dial-up did almost exactly that in practice, but it’s still a good analogy).

Being “always online” is relatively recent, and anything online is going to be vulnerable to malware at some point in its life. Security patches need to keep up with that.

The best Linux antivirus is a healthy dose of dontclickshit.bin.

She’s not afraid of the terminal, but she likes the convenience of GUI programs.

Your wife appears to have the same preferences as I do. I don’t mind using the terminal (I usually have one open any time I’m using my laptop or PC), but some things are far simpler in a GUI.

Syncthing itself is fine. Syncthing-Fork, a completely separate project that wraps Syncthing into a neat app for Android, is what’s going through the repo drama.

Besides - it looks like the new repo owner is pretty transparent about the whole thing and appears to be making good-faith efforts to keep the original Syncthing-Fork devs involved.