Oh damn, so just viewing a file in your file manager is enough to get infected in an insecure desktop environment, as thumbnails can be generated programmatically? If I clicked a bad link that would 100% infect my system.
I’m not worried too much about screen-capture. I’m worried first and foremost about triggering any arbitrary code execution and thumbnail generation on a file would definitely do it.
Have you considered that the EU might have lied to Trump?
That might not be so much down to how serious people are but rather just how good Linux has gotten lately (especially for games). Although I do think people are more serious now.
Different policies, same people.
I definitely prefer quicker access to the controls even with reduced viewing area. I’m normally only going to be skimming things in my phone’s browser so I’m going to be frequently using the controls.
Or better yet, we could have universal healthcare.
Yet another China W. Iran is problematic for materially supporting Putin’s war of territorial expansion, but as the sole country willing to go against Israel in the middle-east (besides the Houthi’s) I strongly support Iran being able to rebuild it’s military strength.
Probably a diplomatic win too, other than with America but diplomacy don’t mean jack with that guy.
I guess it all comes down to the security of X11, and also whether X11 could even be exploited without arbitrary code execution though Anki or Firefox or Steam Chat or something. At which point no sane hacker would waste such an exploit on X11 that’s rapidly becoming defunct.
An extreme case, I also know of a someone who used Windows XP to do rather important work on the internet until around 2020… But they did follow the basic rules as you mentioned and seemed to be just fine.
I think they skipped the third rule, install patches fast.
I made the changes, and it’s slightly better but I think the main issue is my bad laptop and the negative association I have with Xfce as a result (since Xfce was what I was interacting with).
Raleigh isn’t really my style. Too many lines. Plus I’ve decide I’ll switch to themed KDE (and probably FreeBSD with TDE on one device).
The theme in the image you sent is really nice. Beige makes it feel more classic, and the red title-bar is far less jarring than a blue one is in 2025.
Roll up is when you scroll-up while hovering over the title bar and everything except the title-bar disappears. In the image monovergent provided the title bar is highlighted in red.
I use Linux Mint with Xfce. Gonna change to OpenSUSE once I can be bothered distro-hopping.
EDIT: Specifically it’s the Font Settings that take forever to load, not all of the settings menu.
I don’t really like how I keep accidentally rolling-up the windows in Xfce and how long the settings menu takes to load, I probably had more qualms but I don’t remember what they are. It works fine (except for some aspects of Chicago95), but it feels outdated in a bad way rather than good way. Part of it is probably my crummy laptop with broken CTRL keys and incompatible bluetooth.
DesktopPal '97 seems really cool, but right now my top priority is switching to KDE Plasma 6 with custom themes and seeing how that goes.
That might be a better fit for me. I know KDE has a polish and security I want, I imagine I could make it how I want.
Apparently TDE has lower resource usage, so I wonder if for that reason TDE might be a better fit. Clearly I should get both more experience with KDE and a better idea of what I’m actually looking for.
It’s my plan. Not in the mood to distro-hop on my laptop right now, and I got to get through my Epic Games backlog (and also the Steam demos I can’t be bothered downloading again) before I swap over my Windows 10 desktop.
The Australian system is problematic because of apathy, the American system is problematic because of straight malice. And in Australia the supreme court recently ruled that indefinite detention without the prospect of release is illegal, in America the supreme court ruled Trump can sell immigrants into slavery.
Australia is nowhere near as bad as the US. I don’t even know where to start correcting you.
OpenSUSE because rolling release and no IBM. Never used it though.
Currently I use Mint. It works but it’s not the best.
I’d be kinda shocked if in, in 2025, any download of a DE opened X org up to remote connections by default. But I will double check.
What kind of threats could affect Xorg? I can’t imagine anything really exploiting the display manager without arbitrary code execution elsewhere (not that I know anything at all about software security).
I guess the biggest risk is whichever browser I use becoming a Wayland exclusive and not getting updates.
Thanks, that’s a very clear response. I guess I basically can use it until X11 stops getting security updates. I wonder whether an X11 vulnerability can trigger a serious vulnerability even if it doesn’t get security updates.
No idea what that -nolisten stuff is about. Is that to do with the firewall?
So basically they still require arbitrary code execution as a starting point.
Another guy shared this link from Secureblue that goes into thumbnail generation, which can be done programmatically and has been documented in the past as an avenue for infection in Nautilus.