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Most third-party Lemmy clients should support this. For instance, if you're on Sync, you can just swipe it hide the post (assuming you've configured it that way).

I'm sorry I don't know of any way to do that :( does it appear even when you're browsing your main feed??

Nope.

Kali is a pentesting distro, it's not designed for malware analysis. The distro you'd want to use for malware analysis is REMnux, but it's mostly meant for static analysis. Static analysis is fine, but you may not be able to dig deep unless you're familiar with decrypting code and using tools like Cutter, Ghidra, EDB etc for debugging. Naturally you'd also need intimate low-level coding experience, familiarity with assembly language and/or Win32 APIs (or whatever APIs the malware is using). So this isn't an area a casual security researcher can just get into, without some low-level coding experience. But you can at least do some beginner-level analysis like analysing the PE headers and using some automated tools which employ signature-based detection, or you could analyse strings and URLs embedded in the malware; stuff like that.

Dynamic analysis is far more easier to get into and more "fun", but the problem is of course, with most malware being made for Windows, Linux is kinda irrelevant in this scenario. But you could still run Linux as a VM host and run the malware inside a Windows VM. The problem with running malware in VMs though is that these days any half-decent malware would be VM/context aware and may evade detection, so for accurate results you'd really want to run the malware on a real machine, and use tools like procmon, IDA, wireshark etc for analysis. But again, decent malware may be able to evade tools like procmon, so it can get quite tricky depending on how clever your malware is. You'd normally employ a combination of both static and dynamic analysis.

Industry pros these days often use cloud-based analysis systems which can account for many such scenarios, such as Joe Sandbox, Any.Run, Cuckoo etc. These offer a mix of both VM and physical machine based analysis. You can use these services for free, but there are some limitations of course. If you're doing this for furthering your career, then it's worth getting a paid subscription to these services.

Coming back to Kali Linux - it's not something you'd want to install permanently on physical machine, as its meant to be an ephemeral thing - you spin it up, do your pentesting, and then wipe it. So most folks would use it inside a VM, or run Kali from a Live USB without installing it.

There are also alternatives to Kali, such as ParrotSec and BlackArch, but really from a pentesting toolbox point of view, there's not much of a difference between them, and it doesn't really matter (unless you're a Linux nerd and like the flexibility Arch offers). Most industry folks use Kali mainly, so might as well just stick to it if you want to build up familiarity in terms of your career.

As for your Surface Go - you could install a normal daily-driver Linux distro on your Surface if you really want to, and then run Kali under KVM - which is personally how I'd do it. Running Linux on Linux (KVM) is pretty convenient has a very low performance overhead. You can also employ technologies like ballooning and KSM to save RAM, if your system has low RAM.

If you really want to switch there isn't really any reason to not use X.

If you really want to use Wayland I guess it will take a while longer. It's not really 100% foolproof even if you get AMD. The vast majority of apps on Linux are designed for X and XWayland isn't completely ready either.

Are you using Ubuntu Long Term Release or not ?

• I'm subscribed to Ubuntu and Debian announcements via email, and I see much more often Linux kernel updates for Ubuntu than for Debian. It makes me wonder whether the Debian kernel is slimmed down, and that Ubuntu is focused on Enterprises with their kernel.

I wonder, if you are asking two different questions:

1. Why don't you receive notifications about updated packages?
2. Two: Security and bugfixes

For 1. it depends which desktop environment you use, Gnome/KDE have this update notifications out of the box, for other DEs (Xfce, LXDE, etc.) you might need to enable this with the installation of synaptic or similar.

For 2. Debian stable does not ship bugfixes but Debian stable ships security fixes. I highly recommend to subscribe to Debians Security mailing list, especially for security fixes concerning browsers and other stuff.

Edit: I have enabled automatic updates and I still receive regular notifications via Gnome Software, at least once per week.

Debian favors stability over anything else so the packages are thoroughly tested before release and then only upgraded for security issues, until the next release 2 years later when everything gets an update.

Ubuntu favors releasing more recent package versions constantly throughout the period between major releases.

You can install packages on Debian from the backports repo if you occasionally need an package to be a more recent version.

Another option is to install apps from Flatpak. The apps in Flatpak have their own separate dependency system and can be used on any distro.

If neither of these works for you and you find yourself constantly wishing packages were newer you may want to consider a different distro.

Some people switch their Debian from stable to testing to get similar updates to Ubuntu. You can try that but please understand you may experience the occasional issues.

Be wary of adding external repos (that don't point to debian. org) because they can mess with the package dependencies and prevent you from upgrading to the next version when it comes out. (This also applies to Ubuntu.)

They’re updated regularly. Take a look at your etc/apt/sources on both. Debian has everything coming from their servers, Ubuntu has a bunch more.

If you’re going Ubuntu -> Debian be prepared to switch to testing or enable some packages from testing or even use an alternate install method for some software (yt-dlp).

NetworkManager doesn't support DoH, DoT or other recent protocols like DoQ and DoH3. You'll need to set up a local DNS resolver / proxy which can handle those protocols. You could use dnsproxy for this. Once you set it up, you can just use "127.0.0.1" as your DNS server in NetworkManager.

Btw, if possible I'd recommend sticking to DoH3 (DNS-over-HTTP/3) or DoQ (DNS-over-QUIC) - they perform better than DoT and vanilla DoH, and are more reliable as well.

This was answered previously in this thread: https://lemmy.ml/comment/10140174

I use xorg on my desktop, because nvidia card don't have good support for my applications on wayland. Specifically, typing in electron app will jitter. I will be switching to wayland if this problem is solved.

I use wayland on my laptop because it is more secure and supports one-to-one gesture, which is crucial for trackpad.

There is only one root user. Other users may have root access though. Any user can create files only readable by them, but root user can override all of them, change password of any user etc. For a user having root access, they can do all sorts of things root user does

I think the POSIX standard only has one root user, however many users can have root privileges.

So it's probably a trick question, however any user even without privilege can make create a file which others can't, read even the root itself I think not sure though.

What do you mean by other roots? Isn't root only one?

I do not have a lot of knowledge on this, but I suspect that nvidia does not support the GTX1070 that well on Linux.

AND supports Linux better. As for nvidia, newer cards have a bit better support but I bet there's still some disparity.

I’m running Linux mint

I'd say that's your main issue. Mint isn't really optimised for gaming, as it uses an old and non-gaming optimised kernel, and most packages in general are pretty old. When it comes to Linux and gaming, the #1 rule is to try to get the latest kernel and graphics drivers. You could install a more recent and optimised kernel on Mint, but if you do that you risk breaking things, which may especially happen when you do your next OS upgrade. So I'd recommend switching to either a gaming-optimised distro such as Bazzite, or a distro which has the latest packages and is optimised for performance, such as CachyOS (although I wouldn't recommend it if you're still very new to Linux, since it's based on Arch - if you're new to Linux then Bazzite would be a better option).

The second issue is - which version of Proton are you using? If you're using the official Proton, I'd recommend using Proton-GE instead, as it includes a lot of extra patches and tweaks not present in the official Proton + uses more up-to-date components like DXVK. You can install Proton-GE easily using ProtonUp-Qt. Once you've installed Proton-GE, go to the game's property in Steam and change the compatibility tool to Proton-GE.