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Because paying a few grand a year for a certificate somehow makes your software more trustworthy
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You’re being sarcastic but even small fees immediately weed out a ton of cruft.
They also weed out a lot of legitimate software, especially if it’s non-commercial.
I’m not saying there aren’t downsides, just that it isn’t a totally crazy strategy.
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Well it at least is an obstacle. Broke hackers won’t get it or will have to work harder to get around it.
That’s the intention. In reality lots of genuine devs can’t afford it, so people get accustomed to just ignore the whole thing.
And you can still bypass it if you put your software in a .zip
And that’s why certificates can be revoked, that’s the whole point, trust. It only costs a few hundred a year per Microsoft’s documentation and approved vendors so it doesn’t seem that much of an ask. At the very least you can look up the developer yourself, harder to do if the package has no identity associated with it
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I wrote some open source software and looked into how to make that not happen. It’s not easy on Microsoft, and on Apple it costs more than a $100/year!
you have to pay to have your stuff put on the app store??
Yes, on both platforms.
Not only that; You have to pay for updates too. Supposedly it’s because Apple takes time to verify that the app is legit and not going to do nefarious things. So they don’t want a bad actor to get a legit app on the store, then later push an update that infects everyone with a virus.
But apparently a company did a study and realized that app testing rarely made it past the main page, with testers spending ~15-20 seconds per app. They’d basically open it and if it looked like it did what it said, they didn’t bother digging any deeper.
Why do you think they set those up? To not make money?
Yes. It’s actually rather tragic I strive to run my business NOT using big tech. But we need an app for our users. On Apple this means you simply MUST pay apple. 100/year is not a lot. I just don’t want to give them my business.
I can navigate Windows well enough for my job, but I’d never choose it for personal use. I’m no Linux expert, but I haven’t yet been faced with a problem I couldn’t solve.
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I’d use a mainstream distro. I came to Linux in 2017, used Ubuntu for 4 years until I got tired of them forcing snaps down my throat, and then went to Arch. I have never distro-hopped, but I also have never had any huge issues with the mainstream distros.
The main distros really are well maintained and do tend to “just work”. Dare I say, especially Ubuntu.
Maybe try endeavorOS?
I’m the exact opposite! Use Windows for personal use, and use Linux for my VMs/Servers/Docker.
I was taught to use Ubuntu Linux by a middle aged engineer in another field who demanded “the brown operating system” on his computer over a decade ago, so yes, I agree, day to day Linux hasn’t been hard for over a decade.
This will be outdated soon.
They basically admitted at a security conference (I think) that part of the roadmap for Windows 11 is to actually prevent Windows from running unsigned apps period, and you better believe getting past that will require an Enterprise license.
If true ew. I actually just recently learned that Windows 11 requires a Microsoft account (you can disable it by going into the registry) but it officially actually requires it. Fuck them.
No registry edit necessary. Just use the email no[at]thankyou.com, write any password. Windows will throw an error, press continue and voilà, you can create your local account.
Rufus also has an option for local accounts and for removing TPM/SecureBoot requirements.
I don’t think you need to with either a professional or enterpriese account (I think professional). Do need to with a home account though which is extremely annoying.
They changed that.
Mac os when u don’t pay 99$ a year to apple to sign the app
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Mac does it now too. But they do it because they are anti-competitive and want to make you use the Mac app Store. They need to be broken up.
Let’s make it clear. The only virus on a PC is its owner. It never emerges on itself
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Actually this is a good practice. If you don’t know where the program is or if the source is not open, you shouldn’t install blindly.
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