Open source software: Safe? Easy to configure?
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:37 am
Edit: Split from Apache OO OCR software for photographed text? -- MrProgrammer 2019-07-14 00:04 |
I've known about those systems for years, but being in "isolated circumstances" with no mates to assist, I've taken the safe view of not changing to, or downloading and trying Ubuntu or any other linux open source system.
I've still got the Ubuntu shortcut on my desktop. Sort of my "living optimistically" attitood.
So, if you've the time, were I to download a complete Ubuntu or such software 'kit', how difficult would it be to set it up and run on it, instead of the aging and no-longer-updated Windows7. On the hopeful prospect that I'll still be doing my REALPolitik stuff online for any time beyond the next six months?
Perhaps my bigger question is, how safe is open source, for a low-level amateur user, who really has no safety, for being the focus of the big dicks of such as western spy nobs.
Passwords etc., are worthless if they want, as they do, to get in and mess with my laptop's junk. (The irony being my genetic connections to their ultimate masters in the elite dynasties. That again, presents all manner of 'difficulties', if and when I post radical anti-establishment diatribes, which they, rarely, can handle. They are I think told to protect me, but yeah, in a wild western world with off-the-chain nutjobs in every town, yeah?)
So are the open source Linux etc types of systems any less secure than the complex (hahaha, I know) Microsoft or Apple systems?
To that, I have attracted a lot of 'antipathy' from geeks high and low on the corporate pyramids, in my undiplomatic but straight-and-true REALPolitik (anti for-profit) posts against such as Silicone Valley and it's various excesses.
So with Open source and coding/programming especially in the commercial arenas, and with hackers-various being so popular, many with NO morals, or social consciences, will I be exposing myself even more than now if I try change from the mainstream Microsoft etc, systems?
Like, are the mainstream internet security packages, like Norton, or AVG, or, or, worth a cracker with the open source Ubuntu systems?
Also, yes, I expect these questions need be posted to another forum.
"Paranoid"? Me? Just a little, HEALTHY paranoia, in these types of matters.
Trust, is very hard to find in my 'business'.
Cheers.
(Apologies for the TMI.)