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CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed (www.neowin.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But I've read so many posts on here about how Linux is flawless!

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Are you shocked that bad software can crash multiple operating systems or something?

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Nah, but there were some Linux evangelists claiming this couldn't possibly happen to Linux and it only happened to Windows because Windows is bad. And it was your own fault for getting this BSOD if you're still running Windows.

    And sure, Windows bad and all, but this one wasn't really Microsofts fault.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    The sane ones of us know well that a faulty driver is a faulty driver, but! Linux culture is different. Which is why this happened so spectacularly with Windows. EDIT: and not with Linux

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've had the proprietary Nvidia driver crash my whole system a few times. Hoping their new open-source driver (not nouveau, I mean the new out-of-tree open-source one) is better.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, ever heard freeBSD?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it supports kernel modules, so is also vulnerable to bad third party kernel code.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    🤔if nobody makes a third party kernel module, then there is still no risk

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I'm not shocked at all, but there seems to be a very sizable number of people on Lemmy who think if people just used Linux there'd never be another problem or exploit again, which is ridiculous. Mac users used to feel the same way until the market share started to grow and all of the sudden you're seeing news of serious exploits.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For almost every use case a normal user needs, there is a gui. You do not need the terminal.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Tell me where to find executables for programs installed without using Terminal , a very very clickable task in windows

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    /usr/bin

    There, no clicking needed. 🙃

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Huh? if you install anything via a software manager which is included with most user-friendly distros like Ubuntu, popos, mint or zorin, it comes with a .desktop file which makes it discoverable by using the means of the desktop environment - usually something like the start menu. And that's not something new. That has been the case for years now.

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