I have found users install extensions on a browser then discover that blocks them from some sites, or they click a redirection site popup and then that stops it working, they claim virus but usually user error !
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Wow, that’s incredible of Void.
Mostly, ppa maintainers handle things well but there is a small possibility of a failure you mentioned. In those cases, ppa-purge is a program which purges the PPA and downgrade all the packages to the Ubuntu versions automatically. But I agree that choosing other options like flatpak is safer than PPAs.
Another precaution is that you can configure PPA repositories as lower priority than the system repos.
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Yes, that at least uses the inhouse repo wherever possible. You dont want to be using PPA’s unnecessarily.
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I used to use Edge on several devices - for work stuff - it worked well with my corporate account for sync across devices…
But - my employer have now blocked ANY access when not one of their devices … So I just removed Edge and Teams off my Linux machines…
Real PITA and counter-productive IMHO… I have to be in front of my work issued device - can no longer checkout stuff or respond from e.g. Pop!_OS on my thinkpad, or my phone…
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Understand this idea … how many hours are lost to miss use ?, its a bit like cigarette breaks used to be, just nip out for 5 mins …
But counter productive.
While Void is rolling release, it’s packages are not on the bleeding edge. They deliberately chose to only allow stable releases of software in their repositories.
Once they held back an update to musl because it would break several other packages, so they held the update until the relevant packages were updated.
If I remember correctly, this caused a conflict in the core team and the founder left, because he wanted that update to happen immediately while all the others thought doing so would cause problems.
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Oh man, same thing happened to me. I had been working remotely with my home computer and then they banned it. I was doing many git committing, and oh boy, git in windows is too slow.
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So apart from adopting git , rather than programming their own version controller, Microsoft have made it inefficient.
It is lightning fast in Linux. What could they possibly do to slow it down? All it does is compare things and copy stuff to the .git directory.
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Asked chatgpt about it. I suspect antivirus might be a big offender slowing git operations.
Moreover, Windows’ ntfs file system is much slower than Linux filesystems.
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Git is entirely internal. I thought virus scanning was only done on files from outside? Maybe Win is different?
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Antivirus programs have real-time scanning features that always watches files accessed or modified. See.
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Thank you.
That is different to ClamAV in Linux… it only runs when you tell it to, unless you run clamd . With Clamd it does real time checking, bug only on files that are accessed.
i dont know any Linux user who bothers to run clamd.
Most just use clam occasionally to scan newly imported files from untrusted sources.
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I run clamav on client machines if they say they have a virus, but have never found one, usually its a browser extension problem I find manually by testing another browser then checking the extra bits in the main browser such as extensions or opening a new tab or home page redirect.
But not something i use regularly
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So you use it manually. You dont run the clamd daemon to get a real time scanning service?
Given the numbers of virus issues on linux and my possibles of catching something, sharing that with others, I dont think I need to. As I no longer gave any important files to protect, dont work as such… no.
When I work with client machines, Its windows to linux changes so copy files off the windows machine to external clean formatted drive, new install of mint from new lmde iso, off new usb, copy windows files back. So unlikely to have virus transfer.
Day to day my lmde machine is just mail and site visits. But tend to use my android tablet more.
Perhaps I should scan …
The Android tablet scans when you do
Settings → Device Maintenance
I dont see why you would need a special virus app?
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No i was thinking of my linux computer, my tablet I check regularly automatic once i do system updates through play store
Just start the clamd daemon.
I dont bother, I only scan incoming untrusted files.
I reckon if I am behind NAT and dont open any unnecessary ports there is little need.
There is probably a tiny risk from emails, and someday someone is going to interfere with distro downloads or updates.
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I only use Debian-based distros and my favourite is Sparky Linux. It comes with its own repositories and an application manager. You can easily apt install all the most popular browsers and many desktop environments. The version I use is based on Debian stable. On my main computer I use it with XFCE, on my older laptop with LXDE.
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Xfce is my favourite desktop.
Sparky would be a Debian derivative, like MX, only it has the systemd init system whereas MX is sysVinit ( or optionally systemd)
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