On Saturday, 13 August 2016 at 12:37:55 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 19:13:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
I've put Linux Mint on it (which is what they recommend)
Friends don't let friends use Linux Mint:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/
https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
Not mentioned above: Linux Mint's upgrade policy is "format and
reinstall". Their update policy is also "If it ain't broke,
don't try to fix it". No wonder they have internal security
issues.
The comments on the reddit post mitigate the post itself, for
example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/d5vo9l6
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/d5uk29l
The security issue you talk about is probably the fact that their
forums have been hacked earlier this year. That's a totaly
different problem. You can't charge them for this. Some people
are on a constructive side (they build, they program, they
create...) while others are on a destructive side...Do you think
that's smart to exploit the forum of an open-source OS community
with the aim to sold a stupid list of email 85$ to a bunch of
idiots who spend their life at running spam server ?
If you see someone being pushed in the back on the stairs and who
falls, what do you do ? Do you blame the guy who falls "hey
you're even not able to stay up" or the guy who pushes
"a****hole, that's not fair"...
