RE: The Cloud Act
April 1, 2018 at 11:22 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2018 at 11:23 pm by KevinM1.
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I'm using straight Ubuntu (16.04 LTS) for work purposes. It does the job. I used Manjaro as a daily driver for a while and really liked it. It's a user-friendly rolling release Arch distro. In my experience, it's up there with Ubuntu in the "it just works" category.
I've soured on Mint for a couple reasons. They were utterly pwned 2-3 years ago. They were less than half-assed with their security measures, hosting their .iso repository on the same server as their hardly updated and largely unpatched WordPress site, which ultimately lead to backdoors being installed in an unknown number of machines. Also, their drive for system stability is asinine*. If a package update causes a problem, they simply blacklist it, even if it contains a security update. They don't work with upstream to fix the issue, they just ignore it. So, Mint machines wind up being Frankencomputers left at various states of security flaws.
*Maybe they smartened up since I abandoned Mint, but there are better choices out there regardless (whatever one might think of Canonical, Ubuntu is rock solid, and Manjaro actively works with upstream to mitigate stability issues while ensuring security updates are released on time). And if you like the Cinnamon desktop environment, it's trivial to install it on just about any other distro.
I've soured on Mint for a couple reasons. They were utterly pwned 2-3 years ago. They were less than half-assed with their security measures, hosting their .iso repository on the same server as their hardly updated and largely unpatched WordPress site, which ultimately lead to backdoors being installed in an unknown number of machines. Also, their drive for system stability is asinine*. If a package update causes a problem, they simply blacklist it, even if it contains a security update. They don't work with upstream to fix the issue, they just ignore it. So, Mint machines wind up being Frankencomputers left at various states of security flaws.
*Maybe they smartened up since I abandoned Mint, but there are better choices out there regardless (whatever one might think of Canonical, Ubuntu is rock solid, and Manjaro actively works with upstream to mitigate stability issues while ensuring security updates are released on time). And if you like the Cinnamon desktop environment, it's trivial to install it on just about any other distro.
