“Is this a virus?”
Your 12-year-old brother is more security-conscious than most of the adults I work with.
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Non techies have two settings. Either everything is a virus or nothing is a virus.
Still better security consciousness than 99% of the population.
That's because everything is a virus.
I remember an old story about a father deleting bat.exe off the family computer and blaming his son for breaking the computer with his Batman game.
He also keeps explaining to me why Fedora better than my “nerd OS”
lol he's already a true linux user.
But probably best to have a talk about gatekeeping linux though. There's no wrong way to run linux.
I mean, there are definitely wrong ways to run Linux, like a single root user with no password, but your point is well taken. If Linux fanboys would keep the subjective gatekeeping to themselves the new user experience would be much more pleasant.
Hey now single root user no password is all that will fit on my 2 kb hard drive
Or a disabled root account with unconfigured sudo and/or doas
This is a lovely story
I absolutely lost it the first time he called me a nerd for using Arch and straight up started doing Fedora elitism lmao
Time to become a toxic arch elitist user now.
Time to replace Fedora with Gentoo.
My older sibling did something similar - getting Ubuntu installed on my very first laptop (a 9" netbook) back in 2008 and replacing windows XP. But be warned: it is a slippery slope. At the time , I just wanted a computer that I could take class notes on (high school), and never wanted to touch programming or the terminal. Now I have a PhD in computer science. I still don't use Arch though.