• Not all distros ship SELinux and the ones that do, don’t actually configure it securely.

  • New users are expected to keep copying and pasting commands from their browsers to their terminal which compromises some Linux security defenses.

  • KDE, GNOME and Sway are the only functional Desktop Environments/Window Managers that support Wayland all, while the Other DEs are not even close to shipping with Wayland.

  • Most if not all of the Linux Distros in 2025 ship with Grub bootloader, which suffers from a lot of problems, instead of using the bootloaders that does not support BIOS and will improve the reliability of booting and provide a more stable experience.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
    141·
    2 days ago

    New users are expected to keep copying and pasting commands from their browsers to their terminal which compromises some Linux security defenses.

    To me, this is the worst issue here.

    Even large Projects suggest things that are basically curl | sh – without even mentioning anything about how this could be problematic.

    New user are “trained” doing this.

    Every project suggesting it should be not only opposed but actively fought against until they change this bullshit.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pubEnglish
    112·
    2 days ago

    Yea this is a very unpopular opinion.

    Not all distros ship SELinux and the ones that do, don’t actually configure it securely.

    Convenience issues.

    New users are expected to keep copying and pasting commands from their browsers to their terminal which compromises some Linux security defenses.

    Everyone literally says not to do that, including popular content creators.

    KDE, GNOME and Sway are the only functional Desktop Environments/Window Managers that support Wayland all, while the Other DEs are not even close to shipping with Wayland.

    Wayland is massive and probably will never actually be finished. Also implementing it basically means rewriting the whole DE (not really but it’s a ton of work).

    Most if not all of the Linux Distros in 2025 ship with Grub bootloader, which suffers from a lot of problems, instead of using the bootloaders that does not support BIOS and will improve the reliability of booting and provide a more stable experience.

    That’s called “planned obsolescence”.

  • Akatsuki Levi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    1 day ago

    Okay, I call bs on the Wayland part

    When was the last time you suffered from a exploit on X11? Most distros even setup X11 to be localhost only

    X11 has a lot of problems, but claiming it is insecure by default is kinda bs

    Changing from UDP to TCP when you aren’t using TLS at all doesn’t solve the issue

  • anon5621@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    1. I agree mostly yeah it should be by default(but also depends from usecase too if we installing distro as many people doing on old hardware it would even more slow PC)

    2. Copy pasting would damage mac os, windows including too so it’s just human factor

    3. Wayland is protocol not server and to implement full stack u need a lot resources and not small team meanwhile x11 it’s ready to go graphical server universal one

    4. About this some distros installing systemd-boot if installer detecting efi variables if legacy system it installing grub.

    All depends from threat surface attack and what we are trying to defend.