Message from @Silver0Fox
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Yep Windows 10 unfortunately
i actually currently only use linux for my servers, I've found the newer versions of W10 much more helpful to work with as a daily driver as soon as you uninstall the 6000 different versions of Candy Crush Saga
i have Windows 10 Enterprise, so
win10 is good man, but i find a lot of tutorials, projects and stuff will assume you are using a *nix machine
oh yeah
What sort of benefits does linux offer over other operating systems?
i interned at MSR and got used to visual studio, its actually fucking great
and for all those tutorials or whatever I'd do them on my servers, because all the stuff I do with tutorials and whatnot happen to be server-related (because linux server market share is like, insane) so y'know
as long as my servers run linux I'm fine
well linux is free for one
lol
my only problem with visual studio is the 69 GB download
That's a benefit
But I mean in terms of utility
linux being free is only a benefit if you haven't already bought windows
linux is.. sometimes.. faster
but only for encryption
linux can be much more lightweight in terms of CPU usage, basically every open source project runs on it
the linux kernel is marginally better than NT at encryption
because kernel encryption layer and some shit
out of the box it's a more hospitable programming environment
NT is windows' kernel
aka Windows NT
Got it 😃
The Kernel is where all the important admin shit is right?
basically yeah
the kernel is where the system interacts with the hardware and where important tasks such as encryption can be called to improve speed
its the layer between your applications and the processor hardware and memory
And that was one of the big problems with the intel chip right?
if you've ever heard of `ring 0`, that's where code runs directly in the kernel and you'll often see older task managers separating ring 0 usage and user usage
Because it allowed access before it verified which made it faster but was bad for security
Okay. Interesting
the actual mechanics of how the exploits worked is fairly complex
if you're talking about meltdown/spectre, thateffected both intel and AMD, and involved a problem with the design of the CPU's branch predictor that allowed access to memory that the CPU had wrongly predicted to be needed
I think I understand it
with spectre it was more like the most secure programs actually became the most dangerous
this isnt stuff you really need to know tbh 😛
which was pretty funny
I find it interesting because the field I am studying to get into is forensic accounting. And I think I.T is just going to become more and more important in that field
IT has already become more important everywhere