A very little reminder that CrowdStrike for Linux (yes, the same falcon that crashed on Friday) caused kernel panics at least on Debian after a broken update in April. So the issue is not the operating system but the vendor not having a proper quality control (which is no big surprise, the current CEO was CTO at McAfee when they rolled out a broken update in 2010 which caused massive outages worldwide)
How can you tell if someone runs Linux on their personal computer?
Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
Fun fact: I use Linux on my personal PC
And my home server
And my hosted server
And my home router
And my phone
And my work PC
I’m glad you brought this up.
I use Linux Mint on my personal desktop and OpenSUSE on my personal server.
I’ve been toying around with mint as a secondary thing, i kinda like it. Haven’t made the effort to fully swap though.
I failed to switch several times as I’d just boot back into Windows if I had an issue or difficulty in learning a new way of doing things. I don’t remember why but I deleted the Windows drive and then found the prospect of having to reinstalling Windows 8 not worth it.
Sure! I use Ubuntu and Fedora primarily on my laptop and gaming PC, but Win10 and Win11 do run more stable on my machines. 🤪
You cannot migrate all devices running Windows to Linux easily, if your machine contains all sorts of software that was designed to run on it as is. That would be a really poor decision.
Your staff knows what software stack you’ve built should work where and how, and this includes Windows. Swapping it with another operating system will complicate things way more than what they’re dealing with, and no one will want to deal with that.
Getting off a sinking ship is also complicated.
Or, just don’t use garbage like CrowdStrike.
None of my machines were affected. None of the machines at dozens of my friend’s clients were affected.
The only people affected were those who:
- Use garbage like Crowdstrike
And
- Don’t properly manage their environments with things like staged rollout/updates.
Given the purpose of Crowdshit, I’ve have zero sympathy for these companies.
So what you and your friends used for EDR? Bother to recommend something doesn’t suck?
They don’t.
SMB doesn’t use it.
So Windows Defender, unless you are going to tell me they deactivate it too.
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Lots of ideas on Microsoft’s site:
Next post about how to upgrade from ubuntu to debian, arch, etc.
Nice try Nigerian Prince, but I’m not clicking your link.
