I tried OpenSUSE and I ran into various issues installing software. Plus the immutable variant of OpenSUSE is an external project IIRC.

Problem is that I don’t know the format and I couldn’t find any documentation on the matter.

You can’t exactly type “man nano /etc/fstab” into the console.

Don’t “upgrade” to Kubuntu. I’m on it and want to upgrade away because Ubuntu. Fedora Kinoite is probably the best bet if you want KDE for a tech novice.

KDE is really annoying though. Kate is a horrible text editor if you’re not a programmer, and Kwrite has weird default shortcuts without any preconfigured “Gnome/Windows style” available. The Dolphin File Explorer doesn’t allow you to sort and group by different things. And Kparted isn’t as easy to use as Gnome Disk Utility. Still, I like how KDE had better themes than Cinnamon and how it actually lets me move programs to different categories in the start menu.

That’s because the feature is being abused by others.

What did clicking on the cloudflare button actually do? As far as I know just clicking on a link shouldn’t give you malware.

Clicking on things that look legit is a critical part of interaction with computers. Programs should not be installed unintentionally, so first and foremost Office Macros should not be enabled by default (and eventually Microsoft did disable them).

Recently I think the main avenue for malware is to send a PDF with a fake popup for an update, that links to a phishing site and prompts you to download an exe with malware. That kind of thing is a harder issue to solve, but at the very least an OS should probably not let that program update your BIOS.

Ah, I’m on KDE though.

I use KDE and it keeps asking me for a password to mount one of my partitions. I tried to edit it using nano but couldn’t find any documentation about how etc/fstab even works so I was hoping for a way to do it with the CLI.

I wish there was a graphical or CLI option to add a Linux drive to etc/fstab.

My point was that those kinds of reports are useless, this kind of feature is only useful if experienced devs voluntarily use it.

Better a false positive than false negative, as long as people aren’t submitting AI generated bug bounty reports to projects and hiding the fact they’re AI.

GitHub Advanced Security seems useful. AI has successfully found security vulnerabilities that would’ve otherwise gone undetected, and as a rule of thumb all security vulnerabilities need to be found and patched.

I’d write a list of future events and share it everywhere I can, editorializing of course to make sure them coming to volition validates my political views, and then use the eventual fame to shape the world in my image.

Ignoring that path, and with no political sway of my own …

I’ve got nothing. I’d be like 5 years old and Australian. And overall Australia’s doing pretty fine. If there’s one issue I’d focus on it’s digital privacy and my biggest adversary there would be Google. IDK, there’s not really one domino I can affect to change things. Maybe warn about 9/11 and the subprime mortgage crisis but I’m pretty sure other people already did both of those to no avail. Plus I’d be 2 or so years old at the time of 9/11 so that’d probably not go well.

I don’t even know what it does.

Why do people use PopOS? I genuinely don’t get it.

Fedora Kinoite is, probably, the best recommendation.

Debian is a stable server distro, but in the desktop space users expect everything to just work and while Fedora is usually backwards compatible, Debian isn’t always forwards compatible.

As for security updates, IDK.

I’m operating mostly of second-hand information I vaguely remember, I’m not an expert on these things so I’m not really the person to be discussing this with. There’s surely a reason Linus uses Fedora over Debian though.

Because holding back updates makes the system insecure and unstable.

I’m considering distro-hopping from Kubuntu to Fedora Kinoite. I just am trying to figure out how it fairs in terms of application sandboxing, what they’re doing on supply chain security (re: XZ Utils) and whether I might want to give GNOME another shake.

Is this enough to update the Fedora Linux wikipedia page, or is it still just “the distribution used by Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel (as of May 2020)”? It isn’t exactly confirmed but … like what else is he gonna use. I don’t know if he’d be caught dead using Debian or Arch, and OpenSUSE would be too wild a choice.