A security researcher has discovered that Microsoft Edge will load all your stored passwords into memory in plaintext at startup, making it easy for malware to scrape those passwords.
2026 is gonna be the year I finally move to Linux. I have huge concerns about many aspects of switching, but they’re being overtaken by concerns about staying with Windows. I don’t even mind if my overall user experience is a bit worse on Linux (I am trying to have reasonable expectations that it won’t be the walk in the park Linux advocates on Lemmy like to claim), I just have much more faith in its security, privacy, customisability and - most importantly - the motivations and intentions of its developers.
Controversial take from someone who dual boots windows and linux on my home PC and uses macs as work machines but, honestly windows is fine. IMO if you’re the kind of person who cares about a good running machine you’ll have configured settings and gotten rid of the bloatware and done a bunch of stuff to make windows a relatively decent experience anyway, and linux requires a similar amount of effort to get running the way you want it also, but can be a differently polished experience.
Modern OS’s are much of a muchness in practice with regards to their pros and cons. Please don’t downvote me to hell linux lovers, it’s my honest opinion after decades of use of all three.
Best of luck! If you’ve got questions or problems feel free to DM me (or reply here) and I’ll try to help as best I can. I’ve been using linux since the mid 90s, so I have a decent idea of how it all works :)
2026 is gonna be the year I finally move to Linux. I have huge concerns about many aspects of switching, but they’re being overtaken by concerns about staying with Windows. I don’t even mind if my overall user experience is a bit worse on Linux (I am trying to have reasonable expectations that it won’t be the walk in the park Linux advocates on Lemmy like to claim), I just have much more faith in its security, privacy, customisability and - most importantly - the motivations and intentions of its developers.
Controversial take from someone who dual boots windows and linux on my home PC and uses macs as work machines but, honestly windows is fine. IMO if you’re the kind of person who cares about a good running machine you’ll have configured settings and gotten rid of the bloatware and done a bunch of stuff to make windows a relatively decent experience anyway, and linux requires a similar amount of effort to get running the way you want it also, but can be a differently polished experience.
Modern OS’s are much of a muchness in practice with regards to their pros and cons. Please don’t downvote me to hell linux lovers, it’s my honest opinion after decades of use of all three.
I switched my mom to Linux because teaching her how to use Linux as her daily driver was easier than trying to unfuck windows on her computer.
Back up your data and then go nuts.
Best of luck! If you’ve got questions or problems feel free to DM me (or reply here) and I’ll try to help as best I can. I’ve been using linux since the mid 90s, so I have a decent idea of how it all works :)