@Quail4789 @rc__buggy@sh.it just.works there is not a known exploit in sudo but there IS a known exploit in the library it uses to elevate privileges, at least in older versions. Also I make full system weekly backups so worst comes to worst I'm never going to lose more than a weeks data.
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@rc__buggy @Quail4789 And that is a very good point but the only thing I ever use transmission for is downloading distros. If my distro is already compromised then it's already all over, transmission aside.
No thanks, adding unnecessary complexity decreases reliability and efficiency. Might make it easier to migrate things to AWS, also a negative.
Temporary files can be created by user programs. On my machines, I made /tmp an in memory file system and also disallow execution or setuid/gid in this directory as much malware tries to abuse it in this manner.
@Telorand I am not familiar with that distro, I am however familiar with how mount works. As far as what is immutable and what is not, you can set with chattr +i file/directory or chattr -i file/directory.
rm /home
mkdir /home
make /var/home a symlink to it.
Alternative, edit your /etc/fstab to mount on /var/home.
@zwekihoyy If you look at any botnet on the net, it's going to be 99.999% windows machines, always. If you look at machines compromised by Ransomeware, that happens to Linux but rare, common on Windows. Windows is like a 20 year old asphalt road, patches upon patches.
@naeap As long as it remains the easiest distro for me to get from initial setup to mangled the way I want it to work I'll stick with Ubuntu. It still tends to be more up to date than most other releases save Fedora but I do not care for the Redhat approach at all, they are rather like Windows in trying to force you to do it there way, "thou shall use LDAP and not NIS" for example. I don't like distros that think I should change my whole organization to suit their needs. Yea at some point I probably will switch to LDAP but will do it on my own terms in my own time not dictated by a distribution vendor. It is rather trivial for me to excise snap from Ubuntu, a lot more work to hack NIS into a system that doesn't natively support it.
Yea, I have a Manjaro box also, which is based up on Arch with some ugliness added to it, and yes, I have installed and run Arch before so I am familiar, only problem I've run into is every time I go to do an update one or more apps won't compile and I end up having to remove 35 programs and re-installing to fix. There are a lot of things to like about it though, particularly having packages that are just tar files makes them very easy to extract / modify / create. But not a great system if you just need to get things done.
@0x0 No, Mozilla maintains their own repository. You can delete snap firefox and snap everything else, add the mozilla repository, and install firefox from there. You'll get a more current version as a side benefit. Instructions found here: askubuntu.com/questions/150203…
@possiblylinux127 @evasync I can't speak for them, but I've had btrfs blow up in ways I could not fix. I didn't just lose a file but the entire file system. I have NEVER had this happen in many years with ext4.